After digitizing as many as 3.5 million issues of over 2,000 different newspaper titles, Google has decided to stop updating its newspaper archiving project.

The Web search giant said it would not introduce any further features or functionality to the Google News Archives.

Making the announcement, the company said, "We don't plan to introduce any further features or functionality to the Google News Archives, and we are no longer accepting new microfilm or digital files for processing."

However, the content already converted to digital format in the Google News Archives will still be available at news. google. com/archivesearch.

The oldest newspaper title digitalized by the world’s most popular search engine is from a March 23, 1752 edition of the Halifax Gazette in Nova Scotia.

Google said that it would concentrate on other projects such as the Google One Pass, which helps publishers to sell their content from their websites.

The Google Newspaper Archives project was rolled out in 2006 to make all of the world’s information easily available at one place- the Web. But, experts speculate that either the scanning process turned out to harder than what Google had thought, or lower than expected number of users might have discourage the company.