Webmail Interfaces: Why Google is always better than Yahoo! up to now?

As a many year user of webmail interfaces of many email providers, I compare two among big free mail providers, Google Mail and Yahoo Mail.

As of this writing, I still prefer and give highest grade to Google compared to Yahoo because of many reasons. These are the reasons:

1. I can easily search or check unread mail in my Inbox, either by using basic search interface or advanced search interface. You cannot do this in Yahoo. As a user of email, this feature is very important. Not every unread emails need to be opened and read. Most often, by seeng the subject I can decide what to do next with the email. Mostly I just need to check/mark these emails fast (in one click) and with checked mails I can do the next action: either trash/delete or archive them.
2. I can label each of my email based on my need. Each mail can be given more than one labels. In Yahoo, you cannot do this, you only can move email to different folder.
3. Google archiving facility make our inbox free of unneeded and distracting old emails. Mail archiving idea with one button is the original idea of webmail interface invented by Google. Later, I found Microsoft (hotmail) also adopt this but the interface is not as good as Google’s.
4. You can pop your free google emails and you cannot do this in free yahoo email.
5. Google undo facility. Each of my last action in Google mail can be undone (just in one click). Yahoo doesn’t have this.

But why I still use Yahoo? This is because my friends still use them for Chatting.

(洪正鈞)