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News at a Glance

Posted by Cliff on from the pictures-not-words dept.

chris writes: "If you're too lazy to read headlines, a new way to find writings might just save your soul. Paradoxically, this site is showing all the pictures found in news and reviews over the Internet. Nothing to read there, just thumbnail galleries sorted by theme (with, of course, links to the original articles). This format is showing some interesting side-effects. First, you can see what's hot lately because the same picture is repeated over your screen. It is also very effective when looking for reviews of tech toys or computer gizmos... spotting a CPU or a japanese robot among other items is almost instantaneous. Another thing to notice is that pictures of human faces seem to keep the lead over pie charts and battlefields... they are a good clue to figure what an article is about."

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  1. You mean these pictures? by troon · · Score: 3, Informative

    CBC News

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  2. Re:Per-Country by Hittite+Creosote · · Score: 3, Informative
    If you cared to look at the bottom of the page on news.google.com you will see

    International versions of Google News available in:
    Australia - Canada - France - Deutschland - India - Italia - New Zealand - Espana - U.K. - U.S.

    So Google didn't miss it out, they just didn't stick the links up at the top so people with the attention span of a gnat wouldn't miss them...

  3. Yahoo has been doing this for years... by artemis67 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=7 02

    All photos, click to read.

  4. I'm not impressed. by sbaker · · Score: 3, Informative

    So, here are the first half-dozen things I tried:

    1) A picture of a donut in the Science/Technology section. Links to a story about the record breaking sales of the Finding Nemo DVD??!? So, wrong image *and* wrong category.

    2) In the Business section, a photo of some diamonds with a link to a story about Ukrainian diamonds! Hooray! Unfortunately, the next four (unrelated) photo's in the business section point to the exact same article.

    3) Even when I selected the "US" edition, the top three entries in "Top Stories" were links to articles in German.

    4) The next photo in the Science/Technology section linked to an advert for some video game or other. Not what I'd describe as news.

    5) Local News (remember I have 'US' selected). The first three items are in Spanish. If these were stories about the US or maybe Mexico - for Mexicans - maybe I could understand that - but these appeared to be about Spain and were obviously 'Local' stories only if you happen to live in Spain!

    6) Clicked on the first photo in the Health section - got a broken link.

    Deeply unimpressive.

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