Google Develops Newspaper-like Offering

Interesting graphics, if nothing else, at least to the more advanced consumer of content on line. The concept of being able to build, or have built a newspaper-like looking source for one's daily news is interesting, certainly. But along with incorporating an ad-based model to share revenue with traditional news organizations, I wonder if it isn't the same old thing, with the real being to make the experience more similar to dead tree products in an effort to bring their remaining readers on line as much as practical. It's a GUI for what's there, as much as it is anything else. At least, that's my initial impression.

Nothing wrong with that. If anything bothers me, it is Google's significant and growing role in controlling content overall.

Of course, there's nothing stopping anyone else from taking this, or even a different approach as part of a new effort out here. So, it is free in that sense. But it also causes me to wonder if Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and whomever else might, in a sense, become the major newspapers of an era to come. But then, as people have their various search engine preferences for different types of information, I suppose one could almost make that case now.

Google has unveiled a service called Fast Flip to let users consume news more quickly and to boost the flagging fortunes of the news industry.

The product is designed to mirror the way readers flick through magazines and newspapers.

Comments

[WBestPresidentEver]

I avoid google as much as I can. Never use them as a search engine. They are in bed with Obama, I know. Trying to gear up for the 2010, and 2012 elections I presume.
The conservatives better hire someone in the very near future as last yar every page I went on had something about Obama on it. I was overwhelmed at all the crap I saw.
The net really helped him a lot.

[realestate]

Nice thought.
Rubic