RSSGoogle Offers Personalized Homepage
By David Worthington | Published May 20, 2005, 2:26 PM
Google aficionados can look no further than Google itself for their own personalized homepage. As part of its 'fusion' initiative, Google has begun to corral its many Web services together into a streamlined portal site.
Users may begin to create their homepage by visiting the Google Labs Web site and selecting the option to "Personalize Your Homepage." Homepages are filled with modules of content such as previews of new Gmail messages, Google Maps, news and entertainment headlines and other available feeds.
The page layout can be reordered by clicking and dragging sections into new arrangements.
"The personalized homepage is a complement to the existing Google homepage - not a replacement," said Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products. "Keep using the original Google homepage if you want to. (We expect many people will.) But if you're keen to organize and customize your information, take a stab at designing your own homepage."
Google competitor Yahoo offers a similar personalized homepage called My Yahoo! And A9 is fielding a beta Web site with personalized search tools.
Kinda barren, but cool. I wish they would allow you to put tabs for diffrent search options like linux, microsoft, etc.
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|And so it begins....Here cometh the Google Desktop.
Hint: Click on header and drag to re-arrange your new google homepage!
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|my gmail still gets stuck on LOADING LOADING.
clear the cache, clear the cookies. nothing.
worthless. what do i do?
brinkeguthrie@yahoo.com
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|I agree. I also think that it should have ability to change the size of the boxes and move the google search around (I'd prefer to have it at the bottom).
Once there is more content I might use it as my homepage.
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|Well !! You geeks. Continue to support Microsoftand, so be damned. If you are adamant in not supporting alternative O.S or any project not approved by Microsoft, so be it. To cricize anything in the beta state is regressive. Are we so brain-washed that any offering other than Microsoft is offensive. Google continues to offer software that is helpful to the consumer.
So far. I have not paid a dime to welcome Google on my desktop. Can that be said of MIcrosoft ????
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|Take a computer course! I am using Google's personalized Homepage for days. I have not had any problems. Maybe you should evolve from Microsoft's teething stage and becone a fully grown computer user..
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|I like the google-news customisation better than this. It is so bare and cannot add what we like to see there.
I would say, it does not compare with my.yahoo.com
But there is no competition when it comes to news.google.com customisation.
-WZ
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