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Today is the last day for Google.com/ig. What alternative are you using?
Looking to find out what other people are doing to replace google.com/ig? It has been my home page for so many years that I imagine it being gone will have a significant effect on the flow of my workday.
- ForHackernews 13y agoI've never heard of that. What is it?
- BrandonMarc 13y agoIt was their homepage alternative. If you were logged-in to Google and had set that as your default, you could set it up with widgets containing blog feeds, clocks, games, weather, etc. It was a handy way to aggregate just the info you want in a single place, and was very customizable. It was also called "iGoogle" as the widgets were very similar to those you'd find in a Macintosh desktop, but for various reasons they renamed it Google Personalized Homepage. Here are a few screenshots: * http://www.chrisabraham.com/GooglePersonalizedHomePageT.gif http://www.chrisabraham.com/GooglePersonalizedHomePageT.gif * http://tgiftutorials.pbworks.com/f/1182451979/iGoogle2.jpg http://tgiftutorials.pbworks.com/f/1182451979/iGoogle2.jpg * http://alwaysaskwhy.com/jameselee/blog/images/SCREENSHOT-Google-Homepage-Reader-Gadget-Birds-Eye-View-2006.12.png http://alwaysaskwhy.com/jameselee/blog/images/SCREENSHOT-Goo... ... as you can see in the last screenshot, they even offered the ability to group widgets into tabs. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle