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It 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, clo
by BrandonMarc 13y ago
It 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