Friday, March 11, 2005
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Isn’t three years a long time for a product to be in beta? Perhaps the reason is they haven’t figured a way to monetize it yet. No matter, Google News has introduced the ability to customize the news page to fit your preference. Choose sections based on your country that you wish displayed. You can rearrange the sections and delete them. Sadly there are only 7 main sections. It would be useful if Google News allowed subsections and let you fine tune them. You can even customize a section which only displays stories that meet your keywords. This is all nice and good but Excite and other portals have been doing this since the dot boom. Google does add it’s own spin by allowing country and keyword based stories from a much wider breath of sources but I’m sticking with Excite for now because of all the extras. Stock listings, directory links, personal reminders and phone numbers, customized weather, movies, portfolio, word of the day etc. but most useful for me is the bookmarks on the customizable main page. Google sticks with the KISS principle for news only which some will find useful but others may want a news page with extras. Submitted by RL |
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