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. In September 2011, Google announced it would discontinue a number of its products, including Google Fast Flip.
Today, it's come back with name Fast Flip Trends. The site presented images of stories related with hot trends for what keywords people are searching for on a daily basis.
Stories could be scrolled between using the mouse or cursor keys. The presentation of stories used trends algorithm and offer screenshots of the web pages containing relevant articles.
No official announcement from Google, but Fast Flip Trends has been praised for allowing visual, fast and as being more focused on the needs of readers than of publishers.
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