I have always been a Yahoo! person since I remained an Internet Explorer user despite the spread of opinions against it, and in favor of revolutionary browsers such as Mozilla Firefox (most especially) and Opera and you know whenever one opens up a an IE browser, 90% of the time Yahoo! explodes into your screen as a homepage/search site.
But one time I took fancy of making Google as my homepage for my browser at home and put on with it, using it as my default search engine and true to form and exact to what many say about it, it is not only fast-loading but searches are done in a much quicker way. I know you might interrogate me for this and quip, “Why didn’t you know about that? It had been like that ever since—-Mozilla as the faster search engine?”. Somehow I knew about this fact already but I have not gotten to comparing—-whether Yahoo! is much better than Google—-a search is a search and I wanted to do it on my own accord, and not for anyone else to tell me what or how I am going to be searching and what I am about to search. My way or the highway.
But slower Internet connection at home now comes as a factor and you could say that I should hitting myself on the head for sentimentally sticking to Yahoo! despite that sometimes, it takes a lifetime to appear on the screen in full; what with all those heavy animated or moving advertisements that it has now almost all the time.
So now, Google is the default search engine on my home computer.
I then farther inquired on what Google could offer me especially I noticed (and why I got discourage in using it previously) that whenever the homepage comes on, one could see almost nothing; no news or info like Yahoo! does and I am a news kind of guy. Half the time, I logged to the net to scour for news and information. I am so used at opening the browser and immediately what comes on are news and information like what the Yahoo! homepage has. But it is not the case with Google.
So I delved farther into Google’s cache of services (as we all know that it got lots and lots of them) and went into the Google News page. I was a bit mesmerized when I opened such page, noticing immediately the voluminous amount of news titles included in it, from top to bottom, and guess what?—-no advertisements with animated fishes ogling in front of you, swimming to and fro and huge American cars changing colors or sizes, making loading more difficult. I am not really against adds on web pages, we all got to make some dough one way or the other, but sometimes Yahoo! has become more of an advertisement page rather than a search engine. Adverts first, and then search later. Sounds like fly now and pay later. Only a rawer deal.
Google News is actually a news aggregator that looks like a news site. It is highly automated with minimal human intervention in collating the news. It headlines most recent as it comes and most important articles bannered (in accordance with an installed automated system). For a news guy like me, this is just what I wanted and I am thankful that I have gotten to this site through my tinkering. On Yahoo!, the news comes in trickle and feels like it becomes too compartmentalized with news over Iraq and Capitol Hill given most importance and headlined almost all the time.
If one might ask, “Is there a website out there that in one click, you can have all the news that you wanted?”. Of course there is no such thing but Google News comes close, too close I feel. Only problem is that it doesn’t include local Philippine news which I also dig all the time. I don’t know if by “personalizing it” (Yes, just like MyYahoo!, you can adjust it’s content and looks), local news would be headlined among the extensive global news from all corners of the world.
Right now, I am still of double-mind if I would go farther and make Google News my default homepage, having a gregarious amount of news whenever I click on the IE icon on my desktop, just like in my wet dreams my thoughts—-a site full of news in just one click of the button.
Why don’t you try it and see if you want also to make it as your regular news site or even the default homepage/search engine. You can have the option of searching merely the news aggregate or the entire web for that matter. Google News collates from almost 5,000 news sources and includes search for news archives (you might want to search for the old news in your mind) and it also has a portion for “Blog Search”. That shows how Google have so much respect for humble and lowly bloggers like us. Maybe, it’s time to pay back the respect.
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