Pageflakes! Is in the running

Well, I’ve been playing with Google and Pageflakes all week and the verdict is that I like Pageflakes better. I began by trying to recreate the page that I have at Pageflakes at Google. At first it seemed like a promising endeavour. Google has many options for personal organization in their “tools,” area. One such tool is the Google calendar, which allows you to enter detailed daily tasks. I could not find a similar calendar on Pageflakes. Like Pageflakes, Google has several “to do” lists of various styles. Google doesn’t have a message board nor does it seem to offer the versatile sharing options of Pageflakes. There are some blogs and RSS feeds available from Google to add to your page but they are hard to find. Organization of flakes, blogs and feeds is much clearer and easier to use on Pageflakes. Both Google and Pageflakes have an ample selection of time wasters, games and the like. They both also offer a lot of choices for news. I was feeling like Google was fairly close to Pageflakes in value until I realized that several items I thought I had deleted more than once were still there on my page. Out of the items that I tried out on both services, more items on Google didn’t work. Also, and perhaps this is petty, but it seems a little easier to move items around on my Pageflakes page.