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2016-05-31: Can I find this story? API: Yes, Google: Maybe, Native Search: No

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A story on Storify titled: "Lecture on Academic Freedom"  (capture date: 2016-05-31) The story on Storify titled: "Lecture on Academic Freedom" could not be found on Google   (capture date: 2016-05-31) The story on Storify titled: "Lecture on Academic Freedom" could not be found on Storify native search  (capture date: 2016-05-31) A part of our research ( funded by IMLS ) to build collections for stories or events involves exploring content curation sites like Storify  in order to determine if they hold quality (news worthy, timely, etc.) content. Storify is a social network service used to create stories which consists of text and multimedia content, as well as content from other social media sites like Twitter , Facebook and Instagram . Our exploration involved collecting stories from Storify over a period in other to manually inspect the stories to determine their newsworthiness. This exploration was dual natured: we collected latest