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More great news sources to discover in Fast Flip
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Posted by Jack Hebert, Software Engineer
[
cross-posted from the
Official Google Blog
]
Three months ago, we
launched
Google Fast Flip, a service that seeks to make reading articles online as fast and simple as flipping through a magazine or newspaper. It's still early in this experiment, which is why
Fast Flip
remains in Google Labs. But so far our initial thesis has held up: If you make it easier to read news online, people will read more of it. Users have told us they like being able to browse content so quickly, and we've been pleased with the amount of time they have spent reading articles in Fast Flip.
We've also received good feedback from the three dozen publishers who joined us for the launch, as well as a lot of interest from others. Today, we're excited to be adding articles from another two dozen publishers representing more than 50 newspapers, magazines, web outlets, news wires and TV and radio broadcasters. Some of the new sources include Tribune Co. newspapers such as the
Los Angeles Times
and the
Chicago Tribune
, McClatchy Company newspapers such as the
Miami Herald
and the
Kansas City Star
, the
Huffington Post
,
Popular Science
,
Reuters
,
Public Radio International
,
POLITICO
and
U.S. News & World Report
. Now you can use Fast Flip to engage with content from even more of your favorite news outlets in an innovative way, and continue to explore topics covered by a diverse group of sources. And, through the
mobile version
, you can flip through all these new articles on your Android-powered device or iPhone.
While we're encouraged by the positive feedback about Fast Flip, it's just one of many experiments you'll see us try in partnership with news publishers. Our goal is to work with the industry to help it continue to innovate and build bigger audiences, better engage those audiences and generate more revenue. We're looking forward to innovating and iterating with all these new partners in Fast Flip. And if you have more suggestions for ways we can improve Fast Flip, please
let us know
.
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