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Strangely, Google is killing off the one thing that keeps me going to their sorta homepage, iGoogle. When they finally do kill it about a year from now, I'll ha
by jackfoxy 14y ago
Strangely, Google is killing off the one thing that keeps me going to their sorta homepage, iGoogle. When they finally do kill it about a year from now, I'll have to come up with some substitute which may not be so Google-centric.
- mithras 14y agoYeah I don't understand why they do that, igoogle is pretty good and I use it alot.
- wilfra 14y agoI don't even know what igoogle is or does. User adoption is what drives features like this to remain, not how useful they are.
- MikeCampo 14y agoThat is true. This feature has been around for many years and used to be advertised on their navbar before Google+ came about, but it never stood out as a prominent component of the Google experience. I figure they are pushing people to adopt Google+ as their "portal" but I'm likely wrong as the two products are quite different. It could also be that it doesn't generate any revenue and the experiment is nearing the end of its life cycle.
- stumm 14y agohttp://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better...
- SEMW 14y agoI've switched from iGoogle to opera portal ( http://portal.opera.com/ http://portal.opera.com/ ), which is a pretty close equivalent (similar 3-column view etc). Only major loss is it has very few gadgets compared to iGoogle, it's mostly just for rss feeds. (And no, you don't need to use opera to use it).