The Google Visual Newsstand…

Somewhere around mid-  June the buzz doing the rounds was that Google was launching its visual way to search Google news called the ‘Flipper’. Yesterday at the TechCrunch 50 conference, Marrisa Mayer launched the product officially by the name ‘Fast Flip’.

This is almost similar to flipping through newspapers at a news stand. In this case the user gets to view the pictures of the actual articles and after clicking on it the user can read the whole article. Initially the images are a bit puny but the user can easily zoom it by clicking on it.

The idea behind the name is that the user can browse through the  images and select which one he wants to read and flip over the ones he doesn’t want to view and move ahead. It hardly takes a matter of seconds and thus the name ‘Fast flip’ is apt enough.

Like on facebook, the user can like any article by clicking on the smiley icon below it and also the articles can be mailed to the others. Plus this one coming from the Google stable, it’s pretty much obvious that the search functionality has been included in it. And adding an extra sugarcoat to it is the fact that Google has decided to reward the sites and the writers who use good visuals.

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