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Having just crawled out my cave (apparently), I just noticed a really cool feature over at Google News. I’d never experienced the “Image Version” option before.

Fascinating!

Your browser is filled with a bunch of pictures on the left two thirds of the screen, and a vertically scrolling list of news headlines on the right third. Hover over an image and the headline list scrolls to that article and pops up the first paragraph or so of text.

Fascinating!

Click the link and you’ll view the news article at its source, just as you’d expect.

After a quick dig, it turns out this was announced on the official Google News blog at the end of June.

(picture borrowed from the Google News blog post)

As you might guess, I find this a fascinating way to browse/search for news. I’m not exactly sure why… but it just works. I find it more interesting to hover over a picture and then glance at the headline before “committing” to go read the article I guess.

Am I just weeks behind and everyone else knew about this?

One Response to “A Slide Show of News”

1. ShopMania on July 26th, 2007 4:11 am
   

   Great feature indeed. I will say it again, I am a google fan!
   I know some people as late as you are, so you are not the only one

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