Google has introduced a new news reading service called Fast Flip, enabling readers to browse news in the original magazine style.
Latest from the Google Labs, the Fast Flip news service is something on the line of visual search where readers can browse full pages visually. Just as Apple’s CoverFlow interface aims to provide Mac, iPod, and iPhone users with a more intuitive music browsing interface, Fast Flip aims allow more efficient news consumption.
The Google researcher Krishna Bharat explained that “Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers,”. “As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting.”
Google has about three dozen publisher partners, including BusinessWeek, the New York Times, Newsweek, the Atlantic, and ProPublica, with which it will share ad revenue on pages viewed. There is also a mobile version with tactile page-flipping for the iPhone and Android phones.
I am not a critic but the service is only useful for those who are interested in reading news titles and vewing images as the only thing visible is title and images.
How to use the service effectively?
You will soon forget that this Google Fast Flip exists just like many other things on Google Labs.
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