Reading news on mobile devices is something really comfortable and especially so on tablets. Well, the search engine company has decided to make certain modifications so that its news service is now improved on tablets. Google News has updated its service for tablets and now you can do more things, such as finding related articles, or other types of news, with intuitive gestures.
He explained it to us yesterday on your blog Mayuresh Saoji, Google's Product Manager. The goal is to make the experience smoother and easier. The most notable improvements are these.
Now we can find articles, news sources and topics of interest with intuitive gestures. By sliding your finger horizontally between the different sections, we can select what interests us the most. And then with the Live Coverage button to see more articles related to a specific news topic.
Also, at the layout level, they have added more space between news and news so that it is more comfortable to read the excerpts and decide if we want to read each article in depth without too much stress.
For now, this improvement will occur in the United States section to get testing and then it would happen to the rest of the world once they receive the necessary feedback.
With this improvement also come better views of photos and videos related to a news item and arranged in a carousel-shaped side scrolling bar.
In this way, the news service is increasingly powerful and becomes a complementary tool, although much more official, to the follow-ups or retransmissions through social networks that are made of some phenomena. For example, Twitter broadcasts are already commonplace in new and alternative media journalism that provides a direct first-hand look at what's going on, while Google News would be more of a press review on an issue.
Source: Google