aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Visual Google News
Google has unveiled a new, graphical view for Google News.
Confronted with row upon row of (credited but uncaptioned) images, a user has to hover over them with the mouse and wait for the headline associated with that image to appear on a scrolling list of stories in a right-hand column.
It’s also possible to restrict the images to only those showing faces, something which has been possible on the old Google News site since late May. Google syas this is one of the first results of its acquisition of object recognition company Neven Vision.
The reminder that Google is working on recognising and rendering searchable the content of images is probably the most significant implication of this strange new feature in Google News.
It looks interesting, but isn’t the most user-friendly way to navigate a news site.
