German language
Der Standard
Austrian daily. The searchable archive of news back until January 2002 is partly free of charge. Language: German
Die Presse
Austrian daily. The searchable archive is free of charge. Language: German
Google News Germany
The German language Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from more than 700 German language news sources (in the international version: more than 4,500 English-language news sources worldwide), groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader's personalized interests.
"On Google News we offer links to several articles on every story, so you can first decide what subject interests you and then select which publishers’ accounts of each story you’d like to read. Click on the headline that interests you and you'll go directly to the site which published that story. Our articles are selected and ranked by computers that evaluate, among other things, how often and on what sites a story appears online. We also rank based on certain characteristics of news content such as freshness, location, relevance and diversity. [...]"
As at April 2009, there is an additional test-version of this service, based on a timeline-view: Google News Timeline: http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/