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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:
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
