A Google News alternative with ambition

Christian Science Monitor Blog | ScitechBlog Archive October, 2005

The site presents an interface that loosely resembles Google News, but when a visitor clicks a news story, rather than sending readers away from its site, Inform opens the link in the same window, surrounding it with useful tools. Users can (after a little time spent with the tutorial) find related content, track stories or people, and create their own “discovery paths” to delve into subjects of interest. Visitors can even create an account that saves their preferences and keeps them up to date on their favorite segments of the news. Perhaps the most attractive element of the site is its all-in-one feel; it’s as if someone has endowed all online news sources with the features of the best news websites.

Googlization….I like it. I wish I had thought of it. It is great to read about companies that have not given up on innovating, just because Google and MS know what’s best for us

20 October, 2005 |

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