My Yahoo Home Page (Canadian Version) or Google's Personalized Home Page, what do you prefer? Personally (no pun intended), I can think of 5 reasons I prefer Google's version over Yahoo's:

1. Google Themes are much cooler, although Yahoo has 5 times more themes, they appear somewhat old and so 3 years ago. I also like how themes in Google change throughout the day and mimic your local time settings.
   
2. On my personal Yahoo home page is a massive banner, the only advertisement I see on my Google Personalized Home Page is a small text ad in the page the footer: "New to Google Checkout? Sign up and get $10 for your next purchase."
   
3. Managing content in Google is as smooth as silk, simple content management options with the ability to drag and drop content blocks; the tabbed content is also a great addition.
   
4. The process of adding additional content is also a more pleasant experience in Google. I like the layout of the content items as well as the feature which displays the "I am feeling lucky" content based on an inputted keyword.
   
5. Google includes their regular search features such as: Web, Image, Video, News, etc...very effectively, whereas these items can easily be lost in My Yahoo!

That concludes my thoughts, I hope to continue this series of comparing similar services between Google, Yahoo and MSN in future posts.

Labels: Google, Yahoo

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