On Wednesday, I posted about the new Google News customization capabilities. I was obviously very excited in my post, and I didn’t really take the time to think about the new features. Perhaps it was because the product-that-will-always-be-beta finally changed in some way. In any case, I have been doing some reading (as I often do) about it, and came across two really great posts that sum up the drawbacks and/or flaws of the service.
The first is from Jeremy Zawodny at Yahoo:
But I use a few browsers and several computers. Without any sort of login or registration system, though, I have to make the same customizations on each of those machines and on each browser. What the heck? Isn’t that like having a version of My Yahoo! that just forgets your settings every time you use a new computer? That would really suck.
Very good point, I didn’t even realize this at first! Thinking about it though, Jeremy is right. I would love to be able to have the same Google News page on my desktop and on my tablet. The second post is from Steve Rubel:
Google News introduced a new feature today that enables the user to put customized searches right on the home page. That’s all well and good, but where are the RSS or Atom news search feeds?
Also good point. This is, in my opinion, the biggest area Google is behind. MSN Search, IceRocket, and many others all offer RSS feeds of their searches, so why not Google?!
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