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# A timeline
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/a-timeline/
- Published: 2008-12-19T18:44:46.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:18:38.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey

Here is what I saw at the end of the page when I did a Google search on Edmund Burke …  
[![googletimeline.png](https://www.lorcandempsey.net/content/images/wordpress/lorcan/googletimeline.png)](https://www.google.com/archivesearch?rlz=1C1GGLS%5Fen-USUS296US304&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=edmund+burke&um=1&scoring=t&sa=X&oi=timeline%5Fresult&resnum=14&ct=title&ref=lorcandempsey.net)  
This functionality is available in Google News. I did not see it immediately in Google Book Search, although book content is contributing to the timeline.  
I tried a few names, but it only comes up for some. In my few attempts they seemed to be pre-20th Century names.  
As Google develops richer book/magazine indexes and retrospective news indexes, it will be interesting to see what services are built over these resources.  
There is a qualifying note: “Dates associated with search results are estimated and are determined automatically by a computer program.”