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Google Fast Flip
Fast flip logo.png

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Screenshot of the Fast Flip homepage

Type of site
 News
Available in English
Owner Google
Created by Google
Website fastflip.googlelabs.com
Commercial Yes
Registration Not required
Launched 14 September 2009[1]
Current status Discontinued

Google Fast Flip was an online news aggregator from Google Inc. that mimicked the experience of flicking through a newspaper or magazine, allowing visual search of stories in manner similar to microfiche.[2][3][4] It was launched in beta by Google Labs at the TechCrunch 50 conference in September 2009.[5][6][7]


The site presented images of stories from Google's news partners, which could be clicked on to navigate to the story on the news provider's own website.[7] Stories could be scrolled between using the mouse or cursor keys. The presentation of stories used a similar algorithm to Google News, but stories could be ordered by publication as well as by subject.[6]Krishna Bharat of Google News has said that "Fast Flip is mostly for longer shelf-life content, the kind of content you want to recommend to other people."[8] Fast Flip was created after Larry Page "asked why the web was not more like a magazine, allowing users to flip from screen to screen seamlessly."[4] Fast Flip was available as well on iPhone and Android mobile devices.[9]


Users of Fast Flip were able to follow friends and topics, find new content, and to create their own customized magazines around their searches.[10]


At launch, there were 39 mainly US-based news partners. Google said that it would share the majority of revenue from contextual adverts with its news partners.[7][8][11]


Fast Flip was praised for allowing visual,[12] fast[13] and serendipitous[14] browsing of news stories, but it has been criticized as being a novelty,[15] anachronistic, as it emulates print media,[16] limits navigation and presents few news sources,[17] and as being more focused on the needs of publishers than of readers.[18][19][20] Its visual search has been compared to the beta visual search of Microsoft Bing[2][16][21] and to The Onion's microfiche iPhone app.[22] Fast Flip has also been cited as a demonstration of Google's power in the news marketplace; by setting up another news interface that uses publishers' content without returning much value.[23]


In September 2011, Google announced it would discontinue a number of its products, including Google Fast Flip.[24]



See also[edit]



  • List of Google services and tools

  • Google Currents



References[edit]





  1. ^ Bharat, Krishna (14 September 2009). "Read news fast with Google Fast Flip". The Official Google Blog. Google. Retrieved 21 September 2009..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ ab "Bing and Google launch visual search". Daily Mirror. Mirror Group. 15 September 2009. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  3. ^ Boulton, Clint (15 September 2009). "Google Fast Flip is Geared to Generate More Ad Dollars". eWeek. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  4. ^ ab Shiels, Maggie (15 September 2009). "Google turns page on news content". BBC News. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  5. ^ Krazit, Tom (14 September 2009). "Google testing Fast Flip for Google News". CNet. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  6. ^ ab Bunz, Mercedes (15 September 2009). "Google's Fast Flip is for publishers". The Guardian. PDA: The Digital Content Blog. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  7. ^ abc Allen, Katie (21 September 2009). "Google's mission to drive up newspaper revenue". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  8. ^ ab Johnson, Steve (14 September 2009). "Google news feature mimics print sources, lets people browse stories". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  9. ^ "Mobile Preview". Google Fast Flip. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  10. ^ "Google's Fast Flip Is Pretty Slick"[dead link] (25 September 2009). PCMike.com.


  11. ^ "All Sources". Google Fast Flip. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  12. ^ Sherman, Erik (15 September 2009). "Google Fast Flip Becomes the News Stand, Pressure on Publishers". BNet. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  13. ^ Smith, Stevie (16 September 2009). "Google offers swift page perusal with Fast Flip". The Tech Herald. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  14. ^ Taylor, Catharine P (16 September 2009). "Google's Fast Flip and the Return of Serendipitous Surfing". BNet. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  15. ^ Cheng, Jacqui (15 September 2009). "Hands on: limitations of Google Fast Flip make it a novelty". Ars Technica. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  16. ^ ab Bradley, Tony (15 September 2009). "Google Fast Flip Bridges Digital and Print Media". PC World. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  17. ^ Merritt, Nick (21 September 2009). "Why Google's Fast Flip misses the point". TechRadar. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  18. ^ Hickins, Michael (16 September 2009). "New Google Service Nothing To Flip Over". InformationWeek. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  19. ^ Mick, Jason (16 September 2009). "Is Google's Fast Flip News Service a Stud or a Dud?". DailyTech. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  20. ^ Coursey, David (15 September 2009). "Is Google "Fast Flip" Really Just A Slow Slider?". Tech Inciter. PC World. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  21. ^ Beaumont, Claudine (17 September 2009). "Microsoft Bing visual search takes fight to Google". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  22. ^ Arthur, Charles (16 September 2009). "The Onion Microfiche: all the satire that's fit to fit on your iPhone". The Guardian. Technology Blog. Retrieved 21 September 2009.


  23. ^ "Google Fast Flip". idiomag. 27 October 2009. Retrieved 28 October 2009.


  24. ^ Alan Eustace (2 September 2011). "A fall spring-clean". Google. Retrieved 2 September 2011.












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