When I clicked on an article on the Yahoo! front page titled "Palin fires back at critics," I was expecting a long article. When I saw that it was only one browser page long, I was thinking it was a brief they'd expound upon later.
But the four-line article ended abruptly, so I was confused until I saw the small "Read full article" button on the bottom right. When you click, it expands the article all the way down the page so you can read to the end. Otherwise, the article takes up the first window and links to similar content are right below the truncated article.
I guess this is Yahoo's way of catering to the crowd who only wants to skim the first couple paragraphs of an article and move on.
If it's new (I don't go to Yahoo for news often so they could have added it 3 years ago for all I know), it's an interesting concession to scanners and really not too much of an inconvenience to readers who want the full article. We'll see how it pans out in the visitors' minds.
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