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Re: iGoogle switched off

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Post by benpink »

neals wrote: post #4

Been using it until yesterday. Loved it.

Same here. New tab > open home page > scan my iGoogle feeds has been a very frequent and almost automatic habit of mine for years. When it redirected me to a search page it took a good second or two for me to realise what was going on.

Re: iGoogle switched off

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Post by tjeerdnet »

je42 wrote: post #3
alistair3408 wrote: post #2

Shame

What alternatives are you guys using ? I currently use netvibes, but I am not too happy. The font is way too small and non-configurable....

I would really like to know a good alternative for iGoogle too. My dad has been using it for years as his default homepage and he asks me now and then if I know an alternative because he knew it was ending. He likes it because of the widgets (weather, traffic, notepad, task lists et cetera) and the fact that the Google search is integrated on the same page.

People suggested Symbaloo, but that's only a nice iconic representation of hyperlinks. I don't think there is a site with the same concept as iGoogle. If anyone knows a good altenative then I'd really like to know to make my dad happy again ;)

I somehow understand the move of Google to stop doing iGoogle, because similar widgets are now by default integrated in Windows/Android itself.

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Post by Steer »

je42 wrote: post #3
alistair3408 wrote: post #2

Shame

What alternatives are you guys using ? I currently use netvibes, but I am not too happy. The font is way too small and non-configurable....

I switched over to http://www.protopage.com/ last week, but I don't think you can configure the fonts easily there either so may not be of interest to you. It works for me so far at least.

Re: iGoogle switched off

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Post by bane »

Good, now I have almost no reason to go to Google's site at all. Between this, Reader and the useless G+, google's web properties have gone almost completely off the rails.

I utterly fail to see why shutting this down was a good idea.

I hit my iGoogle page dozens of times a day and would have put up with ads and all manner of garbage on it because it was so useful.

Outside of My Yahoo (which was recently updated thank goodness), any other alternatives?

Re: iGoogle switched off

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Post by UntitledNo4 »

IBM wrote: post #8

If you haven't learned to not use a Google product that isn't core to their revenue stream in the year 2013, I don't know what to tell you.

I don't know if it's that straigh-forward as "not core to their revenue stream". At the time it launched I guess it was supposed to be part of their core revenue stream -- it was supposed to give them more insight into what their users are into, and thereby allowing them to target their ads better. Not too different to Google+, I guess, just a different wrapper. I think the problem here was that it didn't catch on as well as they wanted it, and even people I know who were using it, moved on after a while.

So, I guess it would be more correct to say that you shouldn't use Google products that aren't going to be popular enough. Unfortunately I don't have such an insight into the future.

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