Will the Internet ever replace the humble newspaper? Falling sales in printed newspapers is certainly one sign that it will, but I have to admit it is nice to sip my tea while flipping through the daily paper. But that could all be about to change with Google’s Fast Flip.
Google has launched a new way to see the most popular news on the web. Instead of just seeing headlines and maybe a small photo as previously, now Google lets you flip through pages of news much like a newspaper or magazine. When you see some news you like you click on the page and you are taken to the web site where you can read the full story.
Fast Flip is a new experimental service in the Google Labs but is already proving to be popular. Rather than showing snippets of news, Fast Flip shows whole pages of news in the original layout with images, photos and logo. Each page is basically a screenshot of the real web page. So how has Google persuaded news publishers to show full pages rather than short summaries? Well, Google has agreed to share advertising revenue with publishers making it a financially viable option for both Google and the news makers.
The Fast Flip frontpage is divided into four parts: Popular, Sections, Topics and Sources. In Popular you can see the top news stories. In Sections you can browse the different news areas like Business, Sports, Sci/Tech and Entertainment. Topics covers the popular topics of the day like 9/11 and Israel and Sources lets you see the newspapers which participate in Fast Flip which includes giants like the BBC, Business Week, NY Times and the Washington Post.
So now thanks to Fast Flip, I can sip my tea and flip through the pages of the news but this time on the web!
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Google has an algorithm through which it can crawl the new and innovative original content very soon. This makes it very strong to catch the betterment..