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New Google service to mimic old media
By Michael Liedtke |
September 16, 2009, Wednesday
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GOOGLE Inc is testing a new format that is supposed to make reading online stories as easy as flipping through a magazine, a shift that eventually could feed more advertising sales to revenue-starved publishers.
The Internet search leader unveiled the experiment, called "Fast Flip," on Monday at a conference hosted by TechCrunch, a popular blog.
The service is meant to duplicate the look and feel of perusing a printed publication.
The stories are displayed on electronic pages that can be quickly scrolled through by clicking on large arrows on the side instead of a standard Web link that requires waiting several seconds for a page to load. Readers can sort through content based on topics, favorite writers and publications.
For now, Fast Flip will show only the first page of a story. Readers who want to continue will have to click through to the publisher's site, where the display reverts to a traditional Web page.
More than three dozen publishers, broadcasters and Web-only outlets have agreed to share their content on Fast Flip.
The participants include two major newspapers, The New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as large magazines such as Newsweek and BusinessWeek.
The publishers providing the stories to Fast Flip will get most of the revenue from the ads that Google intends to show in the new format. That's a switch from Google's main search page and its news section, where the Mountain View, California-based company keeps all the money from ads shown alongside headlines and snippets from stories.
The Internet search leader unveiled the experiment, called "Fast Flip," on Monday at a conference hosted by TechCrunch, a popular blog.
The service is meant to duplicate the look and feel of perusing a printed publication.
The stories are displayed on electronic pages that can be quickly scrolled through by clicking on large arrows on the side instead of a standard Web link that requires waiting several seconds for a page to load. Readers can sort through content based on topics, favorite writers and publications.
For now, Fast Flip will show only the first page of a story. Readers who want to continue will have to click through to the publisher's site, where the display reverts to a traditional Web page.
More than three dozen publishers, broadcasters and Web-only outlets have agreed to share their content on Fast Flip.
The participants include two major newspapers, The New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as large magazines such as Newsweek and BusinessWeek.
The publishers providing the stories to Fast Flip will get most of the revenue from the ads that Google intends to show in the new format. That's a switch from Google's main search page and its news section, where the Mountain View, California-based company keeps all the money from ads shown alongside headlines and snippets from stories.
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