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Google has decided that you’re not getting enough news in your balanced diet of information. Equatable to hooking up an IV of coffee to get your necessary caffeine, Google Fast Flip, a new Google Labs project, aims to provide you with more news than you probably want, faster than you probably want it. Fast Flip provides a magazine-ish interface to news stories from (currently) three dozen popular news publishers.
You can flip through news articles based on popularity, news sections, hot topics, or publishers. On the home page, you can scroll through a strip of stories to find the first one you’re interested; once you’ve selected a story, you can use the big left and right arrows on either side of the story to go to the previous or next story in the section. You can also scroll through the section’s stories using a pop-out sidebar on the left side of the page. Also, the iPhone and Android versions let you actually flip through the stories using touch gestures, making the whole experience more fluent.
Google makes loading the news stories faster by caching them as images; this way, to read a news story, you don’t have to load the entire publisher’s web page (with all of its graphics and other elements) making load times significantly faster. Instead of having to wait ten seconds for a news site’s page to load, the next story’s screenshot has already been downloaded and cached in your browser.
Fast Flip also provides recommended results for anyone with a Google Account; it can automatically track the stories you read as well as base recommendations on articles you click the “Like” button for.
Newsaholics can get their fix with Google Fast Flip originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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