Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
On this one self-designed page, you can select and organize the content you choose:latest Gmail messages headlines from Google News and other top news sources weather forecasts, stock quotes and movie showtimes bookmarks for quick access to your favorite sites from any computer your own section with content you find from across the web
The personalized home page has a new link in the upper left corner "Add content" that expands a list of dozens of feeds to add.
Just like pinging My Yahoo and adding your feed?
Now it is losing that focus. There may be trouble ahead...
The only thing that might have an effect is the personal surf habits collection. I don't like it one bit, and for my key info I still surf in stealth and would never assign to a personal portal page.
Google got big by focusing on user needs and good engineering. Their initial product Search was (and is) a combination of those two factors. They are now applying that to other products.
Google got big by concentrating on search and refusing to become a portal, or anything other than a search engine
Google got big by building the best search engine, plain and simple. They can get bigger by building the best portal, best advertising platform, best X, and best Y.
Their personalized homepage is certainly not the best at this point, but they are moving in right direction IMHO.
Wow, that was easy wasn't it.
Now it is losing that focus. There may be trouble ahead...
Lots of trouble if your name is Yahoo or MSN, probably hiding under their desks quivering.
Also added Weather for where i live, but the info is temporarily unavailable. Just like Google Earth, we'll have to wait this side of the world :-)
I like it. Already have 16 rss feeds and transferred my most visited bookmarks. How long till we get msn.ig ;)
It has been around for a while...
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Just like yahoo and msn.
i wonder if there is add to google or google bookmarks button too?
Regards,
AHT
What makes this portal unique is that it is not flooded by flashing ads, or a row of 10 tabs across the top. Or anything else I don't want.
The HTML is simple and the javascript isn't, but it works. Once the page loads it is all client side from there which makes it nice and fast, which was what I loved about Google to begin with. It was an image, a few links, a textbox and 2 submit buttons. Simple simple simple and it loaded fast. The portal is the same, simple simple simple. (Unless you are trying to unravel the javascript, they did everything they could to make it really tough to read)
Anyway go check out MSN portal pages, I don't know where the ads stop and the stuff I want begins, not to mention, all the tabs.
2 Complaints with the new Google pp.
1) As a Canadian is if you have the weather service set to your Canadian city as I do, it will show you the celcius value for today but the 4 day forcast only shows farenheit, even though the city I selected is in Canada and it has knowlege of that. Can't get it all right out of the gate.
2) It won't accept some rss feeds, my assumtion is the format is wrong or it is to many values or something, I wish it would detail why it doesn't like it. Anyway I tried to get my HALO 2 Xbox live stats from the bungie.net rss feed and it won't do anything. Nothing happens when I click the add button. It doesn't even look like the clicking of the button worked.
On left sidebar under the "Fun" menu you can add "Ask Yahoo!" :) Interesting...
