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Google News vs SmartNews
October 04, 2024 | Author: Adam Levine
9★
With Google News, discover more of the news and magazines you care about all in one app on your Android tablet or phone. Enjoy breaking news and in-depth articles featuring audio, video and more. From sports, business, cooking, entertainment, fashion and more - now get both free and paid news plus subscribe to vibrant full HD magazines, all in one place. With hundreds of premier publishers - it’s all there, easy to follow, read, and share.
4★
SmartNews is the fastest, most efficient way to get all your news now. Your news in one minute. Zero loading time, a beautiful interface.
Google News and SmartNews were two rather peculiar entities, each with its own charmingly idiosyncratic way of bringing the cacophony of human events to the average befuddled reader.
Google News, for example, had the distinct demeanor of a highly caffeinated librarian who’d recently discovered artificial intelligence. Armed with algorithms more complex than a Vogon tax form, it would trawl the vast reaches of the newsiverse, gathering articles from sources far and wide and then present them in a manner eerily tailored to your latest browsing whims. It was expansive, relentless and had an almost pathological need to keep you informed of absolutely everything—from the latest political scandal to why aardvarks are the future of fashion. It thrived on giving you a symphony of perspectives, or, depending on your view, an overwhelming barrage of headlines that could cause dizziness in those of a nervous disposition.
SmartNews, meanwhile, was rather like Google News's zen cousin—unflappable, focused and with a surprising penchant for brevity. Instead of bombarding you with every conceivable nuance of every possible story, it said, “Here are the basics. Read this, understand the world and then go have a cup of tea.” It sported an interface so clean and crisp that it might have been designed by someone who’d spent a lifetime being mildly annoyed at cluttered desks. And it worked offline, which was the digital equivalent of saying, “I’m here for you even when the rest of the universe isn’t.”
See also: Top 10 News Readers
Google News, for example, had the distinct demeanor of a highly caffeinated librarian who’d recently discovered artificial intelligence. Armed with algorithms more complex than a Vogon tax form, it would trawl the vast reaches of the newsiverse, gathering articles from sources far and wide and then present them in a manner eerily tailored to your latest browsing whims. It was expansive, relentless and had an almost pathological need to keep you informed of absolutely everything—from the latest political scandal to why aardvarks are the future of fashion. It thrived on giving you a symphony of perspectives, or, depending on your view, an overwhelming barrage of headlines that could cause dizziness in those of a nervous disposition.
SmartNews, meanwhile, was rather like Google News's zen cousin—unflappable, focused and with a surprising penchant for brevity. Instead of bombarding you with every conceivable nuance of every possible story, it said, “Here are the basics. Read this, understand the world and then go have a cup of tea.” It sported an interface so clean and crisp that it might have been designed by someone who’d spent a lifetime being mildly annoyed at cluttered desks. And it worked offline, which was the digital equivalent of saying, “I’m here for you even when the rest of the universe isn’t.”
See also: Top 10 News Readers
