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Google homepage is now iGoogle
Seven new gadgets are on tap to back up the baby green "i", along with a taste of some social features and the promise of a new Gadget "wizard" to come. Included in the seven new gadgets are Daily Me (cough, Twitter, cough), Simple List (a to-do list Gadget) and five others of descending usefulness; Bringing
The Gadget wizard, which is yet to be released, is the only promising piece of iGoogle's new digs. Too bad it's not available for a test drive. When launched, the gadget wizard will allow users to build Gadgets of their own, although apparently without any advanced coding or ability to do much that we'd classify as interesting.
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Subscribe to commentsocellnuriMay 1st 2007 1:26AM
This is horrible? Why Google? Why? It's May 1st, not April 1st.
OLiMay 1st 2007 1:36AM
Lame!!!
FredMay 1st 2007 2:21AM
The reason why Google threw a quick yet unfinished iGoogle (what a awful name to type!) might be because they just wanted to eclipse the WOW factors from Mix07. It's not the first time they did the similar thing. Recall the most recent Stumbleupon thing.
Unfortunately they fell short too fast this time.
erzterterteMay 1st 2007 5:22AM
Well, I suppose every company - no matter how successful - sooner or later reaches the point from where it goes down... Seems that Google has reached that point.
In a few years we will all be using MSN search.
jjMay 1st 2007 8:48AM
The fact that you all care so much about a name, or actually a single character of it, tells me that you're completely clueless and place no value on actual content.
GG noobs.
DannyMay 1st 2007 9:47AM
Meh. I'll stick with Netvibes. They're lightyears ahead of Google.
ThunkDifferent.comMay 1st 2007 1:00PM
The CEO of Google is on the the Apple board of directors, perhaps he had an epiphany. iThink so.
KarnatosMay 1st 2007 1:51PM
I've noticed first hand what a lot of folks on Digg have already commented on; my personalized page is now borked.
This is just a little warning to anyone that decides to go and check out the newly named iGoogle... for whatever reason, after making 1 change I lost all my tabs and my main tab appears to be something I threw together over a year ago.
iamhoffMay 1st 2007 6:58PM
I noticed that this morning when I logged in and checked my Gmail. The only thing I see that makes me want to remotely consider using iGoogle as my homepage vs Netvibes or even My Yahoo beta (certainly the best looking one, imo) is the optional themes no longer make it look like a basic text page. Some color! Wow! Now it at least looks like it could belong in the Web 2.0 family of things. Actually, I'll stick with Netvibes...I just wish it would load faster.
cyang1999Jul 21st 2007 8:26AM
I want igoogle to be my homepage.