Google has just unveiled another new product. This one is a personalized homepage, also known as a "web portal", that lets you customize all the info you want to see all in one place -- so it's accessible from your homepage every time you open up your browser. It's FREE.
That's cool. But not cool enough.
Here's the site to customize your own Google homepage.
Now, you want to know why Google's personalized homepage doesn't even come CLOSE to matching the features available on My.Yahoo's personalized homepage?...
Google vs Yahoo Personalized Homepage
As I mentioned in a previous post about all the cool things about My.Yahoo.com, three of the absolute best features and reasons to utilize a personalized homepage like this are:
1. RSS feeds.
With RSS feeds you can stream "live" data to your desktop. In effect, you are able to view anywhere from 1-10 (your choice) of the latest headlines, along with a short abstract that appear on virtually any website. And there's no limit to the number of websites you can do this for!
---> My.yahoo has it. Google does not.
2. Virtual bookmarks.
If you tend to do some computer work (or research) on one computer, and some computer work on another computer, then you'll save both time and energy by being able to access ALL of your bookmarks & favorites in one location.
---> My.yahoo has it. Google does not.
3. Virtual notepad.
It's like being able to access all of the files and documents on your hard drive -- from ANY computer!
---> My.yahoo has it. Google does not.
...And that's just the tip of the iceberg!
Check out this article to see why my.yahoo's other features -- like the personalized Calendar with reminders, and the multiple e-mail account checker, to name just a few -- CANNOT be beat. It appears that the users and the experts agree with me on this one.
The fact remains, if you're on the computer a lot, and you want to make the most efficient use of your time, then you've GOTTA start using My.Yahoo.com... it's FREE.
For Searching The Web... It's Google
On the other hand, the one place that Google beats the pants off Yahoo... it's search engine!
So, if you're SEARCHING the 'Net... use Google. There's a reason that it's the #1 search engine in the world.
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Hi there,
I liked your article and agree that my.yahoo is better than Google's personalised page (although Google does now offer RSS feeds as well by way of an RSS Google gadget).
Your users might also be interested in a new start page available called Funky Homepage. It's comprsied mainly of Google gadgets (as well as Gadgets from other sources), live news feeds, daily Bushisms, videos, weather, interactive calendar, Google calendar viewer, comic strips and so on, but also lets you choose your own search engine. So you can have all the most popular features of my.yahoo with a Google search box! You can check it out at http://www.funkyhomepage.com