Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Google News is getting better



Not many of you might notice, google news is currently the most improved product among all google services, it's even better than the gamil, calendar, docs, google+, and of course, reader. The most significant improve is its fluid width feature which fits any screen size, and its left navigation bar and the right column will automatically be hidden when reducing the window size. the second best thing i like is its integration with google+, which you can see the authors of articles (if they are on g+) and circle them without leaving the page (which, is a bit slow, blamed on G+, but is still acceptable). The customized news search works great, though it doesn't support chinese very well. The news list isn't really timely and there is no way to filter news by time range is the main drawback to me. But still, if you compare this with other products, you will easily find it much better than most of the redesigned products.