Internet giant, Google has said that it will stop digitizing old newspapers after five years and will focus more on projects such as Google One Pass.

The company said it is stopping the service because the publishers are trying to make money from the content instead of offering it for free to the users. The users will be able to access the newspapers collected so far on Google News Archives at news. google. com/archivesearch.

"We work closely with newspaper partners on a number of initiatives, and as part of the Google News Archives digitization program we collaborated to make older newspapers accessible and searchable online," Google said.

Google also said that it will not introduce more features or functions to its Google News Archives and it will no longer accept new microfilm or digital files for scanning.

The company will not increase the number of scanned newspapers.

The company has already digitized more than 3.5 million issues of more than 2,000 different newspaper titles. The company will provide publishers with the digitized copy and they can host it on their own websites.

The company has been scanning and saving reams of microfilm and yards of newsprint for years. It had launched the project in September of 2008 in a partnership with publishers in order to make the old newspapers available to the users.