Google: New Personalized Home Page
Posted by Edward N. Albro | Thursday, May 19, 2005 3:55 PM PT
Big news from today's big press event at Google is . . . a personalized Google home page.
If the idea of a page with a summary of news, e-mail messages, weather, and movie info personalized to you seems underwhelming and, a little, well, 1998, you're not alone. That's the way it seems to those of us here in Google's cafeteria as well.
But the service (available now
here) does have the advantage of Google's uncluttered approach to an interface. And Google's pulled in some high-powered partners, including the
New York Times,
BBC News,
Wired News and
Slashdot.
Customizing the page is a breeze--quick and intuitive. So it's not the kind of astonishing innovation we've grown to expect from Google. But if you're a fan of the search engine, use Gmail or like any of Google's partners, it's worth checking out.
If you don't like it, getting back to the "Google Classic" home page is one click away.
I like it--sure, it needs more improvments ("it's in beta, stupid"), but it's still cool. What do you think?
yea, it needs improvement but it is pretty good! I like it! ;-)
Wow! dragging the parts around to customize is really neat!
Its simply awesome, since I use Google news, search engine and Gmail.
Works fine & eliminates redundancy when I placed it into Firefox's Web Browser toolbar
"Beta" doesn't win sympathy points from me. I don't use Gmail and can put Google search into my Firefox toolbar. Until Google's options for content and customization matures, I'm sticking with My Yahoo.
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Yumgo.com might be an alternative for those that do not use all the google features. I use it all the time because they are unbiased therefore you can use a variety of different search engines, news, email and more customization. Yumgo.com reminds me of Google with thirdparty add ons. There is also no need to login with yumgo, your preference are stored in your cookie.
Wish BMY and XOM stock quotes. Would like more news on major WTA tournaments and current movies added to my Google Home page.
THANK YOU.
I use Gumpage as a starting page. It's very simple and I use it all the time.