The New York Times has been exposing more data to external websites and applications recently, and now provides the ability to search the Times' entire online article archive of 2.8 million items going back to 1981. A post at VentureBeat.com explains The Times is doing so through application programming interfaces (APIs), which let third-party company developers access the data easily. For now, there's no charge to access the data, although the terms of service leave the possibility open.