Last week , Google released itsiGooglepersonalized home varlet from genus Beta . If you have n’t checked it out already , you should .
For years now , I ’ve start my calculation day atMy Yahoo . I ’m not the only one : According toComscore , My Yahoo is the web ’s most popular home pageboy , with 50 million fast user .
I ’d configured My Yahoo to show me the top national and international headlines , atmospheric condition forecasts for San Francisco and a caboodle of other metropolis around the earth , the current time value of my origin portfolio , and the latestGiantsscores .
Yahoo recently upgraded its homepage engineering . Instead of take from a modified selection of static selective information sources , you may now configure your Yahoo base Thomas Nelson Page with almost any information you ’d wish , usingAjax - driven synergistic info - widgets . you may choose from a identification number of modules — many of them RSS provender — and then drag - and - drop them to make your own whole custom-make home Sir Frederick Handley Page .
So what ’s not to like ? The raw templet offer few layout selection than the onetime one , and I do n’t peculiarly like the options they have . There ’s now an advert at the top of the correct - hand column ( where I used to have my origin ) . The old template had ads too , of course , big banners that spanned the top of the screen . But I was used to those , and they did n’t irrupt into what I consideredmypart of the page . And , even though I ’m a Firefox exploiter , as a Mac loyalist I have to object to any web site that — like the young My Yahoo — doesn’t affirm Safari .
So I set out looking around at other habitation Thomas Nelson Page alternative . Of course , I could place my home page to any page in the vane ( or none ) . There ’s no shortage of customizable home page , either — Netscape , NetVibes , and many others have their own . For the past couple of months , I ’ve been using Google’s — and I wish it .
iGoogle offers much of the same clobber as the others — the customizable news feeds , stock tracking , weather forecasts , and pretty much anything else that ’s useable via RSS . But iGoogle also tie into Google ’s many other information products , so you configure an iGoogle family page to trail your Gmail , check the late YouTube videos , get quick memory access to Google Docs and Spreadsheets , set Google Map searches , and so on .
Also , because it ’s Google , hoi polloi will probably develop their own newwidgetsandadd - onsfor it . Google ’s issue its ownGadget Makerto make that ontogenesis wanton . And I have n’t ( yet ) fallen dupe to the hemipteran that ’s been plaguing some iGoogle exploiter . Bottom line : You get the best of other customizable nursing home Page , plus some good that only Google can bring home the bacon .
