Find News from a Time Period

If your Google search query includes a year, there's a big chance you'll see some search results from the news archive at the end of the page. While many results require a subscription, you'll find plenty of free pages.

Google doesn't have a way to search for pages published on a certain date or time period, so this is could be a small replacement.

As you can see, searching for [Yahoo 1997], you can find some news articles from that time and even more if you click on "News archive results". You can also search for [yahoo 1997-2004] to see the news from that interval.