Google Fast Flip is another interesting Google Labs initiative which lets you surf through major online news portals quickly  newspaper style, yes you can flip pages one after the other, but otherwise they are just screen shots and you will need to click to read more.

For filtering and making user browsing experience better it is categorized into Politics, Business, U.S., World, Sports, Sci/Tech, Entertainment, Health, Opinion, Travel,Recent, Most Viewed, Recommended, Headlines, National Review Online, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Center for Investigative etc.

All these sections are divided into panels which can be rearranged by moving up or down and if you are signed in the preferences will be retained. However I wasnt able to find to further customize it more using my account.

There is also mobile version of Fast Flip availble which lets you browse by using popular mobile phones like iPhone and Android only as of now.

Going ahead, Fast Flip is also armed with Voting button and sharing Email link. What I liked most about it was details of the author, site and in which group the news was posted is framed nicely. Read their complete FAQ here

Now my thought after seeing this was “Is this the new look of Google News ? ” Can we see more of this coming to searches after we did hear from some sources that Bing 2.0 is coming with Visual Search. What do you think about it ?