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Google's New Personalized Homepage
jgaynor writes "Citing user requests to coalesce its disparate services, Google today released its new personalized homepage service. It allows you to arrange your Gmail, Google News, Google Maps driving directions, weather and a few select news services (including Slashdot) on a single page. Future plans include Universal RSS support. Clearly a shot at existing services like My Yahoo."
I was waiting for this moment for a lot of time. Google have so many features, but it was missing the page that put them all together. Have a directory, stock market feeds, dedicate search for Linux, email, free blog and lots more ... Oh yeah and don`t forget about google adsense and adwords
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Awesome. You don't need to sign up for another account if use Gmail. Good stuff.
One of like nine options total is to see slashdot's news items. Strange? Not really. Suspicious? Yeah, kinda. I mean, why would Slashdot be picked among all the tech news sites out there....?
My little site.
What they're offering right now is rather underwhelming and far behind My Yahoo. I was hoping they would actually do things differently.
I really like this look and feel.
However, I would personally like a standard default available so that I don't have a different looking homepage just after clearing internet cache/cookies etc.
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I love how you can customize it, it can even pull stories from slashdot (although it lags a bit, for instance this story hasn't shown up yet).
If you don't like how they're arranged, just click and drag the boxes around, really truely awesome use of DHTML.
My one gripe is with the gmail integration, when you open a message it looks a bit kludgy, and from there if you try and the inbox link at the top you get a "grrr! you have a popup blocker" message. Note that I'm using Firefox here, and from how FF friendly they are you think this wouldn't be an issue, oh well, it still rocks.
I know a lot of users who switched to Google for its simplicity.
Remember Excite, Hotbot, Lycos, Infoseek, and Altavista all used to look like Yahoo.
Then Google started to kick ass and everyone moved away from that format to a minimalistic approach.
No google is trying to become Yahoo? I'm going dizzy just thinking about it...
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Pretty nice. The clean drag 'n drop and edit stuff is good. One thing I would have liked to have seen is a 'generic' RSS box instead of one specifically for /.
Maybe they'll get around to that.
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I just browsed through these pages, and saw the registration link for gmail. WTF??
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Hopefully, they take it the rest of the way and incorpoate groups-beta.
Google could go the full Yahoo! monty, and have an interface that looks like "an Australian's nightmare", but I'd be very surprised.
They seem to grasp the strategic non-value of such a turdberg.
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this is one of the most amazing web interface's i've ever seen. google has done some remarkable work with gmail and maps.google.com and this is even better.
it would be nice if someone could make a toolkit for php or whatever to make web interfaces that are as rich as regular app interfaces. Qt for the web!!
to how much personalization they can do. It's just a matter of time. People are not going to return to the days of the mainframe. One of the main reasons why pcs have done so well is that you have your own hard drive. Google's model is just as bad, if not much much worse than .NET My Services, Hailstorm, and Total Information Awareness.
Basically, Google is not empowering people. They are creating a worldwide service where they are the single "Doc" format that only they can view and open. It's worse than MS in a lot of ways.
Totally anonymous searching is one thing, but the more that they try to do this, the more resistance they will hit. This whole "Do no evil" thing is a bunch of double-speakin' jive, I tell ya.
If Google REALLY wanted to make a splash, they would create an installable web platform where people could run their own instances of each service. It would kind of be like as an analogy as if you could obtain "MapPoint" but "GoogleMaps" and then create your own service with it. I know you can mash up Google maps and such, but why don't they release the source to it? They can still run their own instance of it and provide services around it, but create an open platform where other people can have the same OPPORTUNITY that they are creating for themselves. As it is, they're just locking people in way worse than Microsoft ever did.
No, I hadn't. I thought that it was just a link to regular Yahoo. Yahoo Search doesn't look have bad, I'll have to give it a try. Do you think that there was any Google influence in their design?
Greasemonkey has a script to add Google Suggest to the regular homepage. I guess it can be trivially modified to work with MyGoogle as well.
Well, I clicked on the link in the article, and was able to setup a page and customize it.
I then visited Google Canada's home page, and added /ig to it and tried to do the same, and ran into a redirection loop (seems google.ca tried to redirect to google.com, which tries to redirect to google.ca, ad infinitum...
Now neither /ig pages work at all. I had to clear all the cookies to get back to one page that works.
Hey Google guys! I know that some of you are reading this. Please fix it.
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I use My Yahoo as my home page. It gives me the news, weather, and other miscellaneous stuff. I check it a few dozen times a day, whenever I want to connect with what's going on.
I use Google to search.
At this point, a "Personalized Google" home page wouldn't be a reaplcement for Google, and in fact they shouldn't take up half the front page with a search bar. It would be a replacement for My Yahoo. When I want to search, I'll search. When I want to know what's going on, I'll hit my personal page.
What I see of Perssonalized Google Home Page isn't taking me away from My Yahoo yet, especially since I use neither Yahoo mail nor GMail. (Not that I have anything against gmail; I just own my own domain and use that instead.) I like My Yahoo's collection of news better, which is funny because Google News has all the ones I could possibly want.
But if they keep at it, combine the maturity of My Yahoo with Google's fancy Javascript and good instincts for non-evil features, and it may not be long before I abandon My Yahoo entirely.
Would be to have a "dismiss" link for the Word of the day and Quote of the day entries so they can be made to go away but automatically reappear again tomorrow.
I quite like them, but after I've absorbed them I don't need to have them cluttering up the page for the rest of the day.
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That they included Slashdot in the news services. Right up there with the New York Times and Wired News. All stuff that I read, and pretty cool that Google reads them too!
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I am positively loving this. I've previously used my Yahoo account because it has everything I need when I'm traveling, or when I'm using the computers at school. I can also set it up with a two-column format that is friendly for my Original Recipe iBook. Yes I know you can also do that in Yahoo but it's just not as elegant.
I could use a link to Google Maps, My Google Groups and some sort of bookmark storage scheme, but this will do for now.
Oh yeah, it loads really, really quickly too.
Call me a Google fangirl, but this rocks.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
As I scanned through the critical discussion of this new compilation of services by Google, I realized how calculated their marketing efforts are. It now seems quite probable that there are any number of Google employees currently tracking this thread on Slashdot. A free analysis by one of the most vocal net cultures of geeks (and n00bs)!
I listened to a few hours of the stockholder briefing. Some guy in the audience actually had the gaul to ask if he could use his Yahoo Mail with this new service. Bryn deferred to the PR chick who announced this - SHE SAID YES. As in 'yes we're in talks with other vendors to get 'hooks' to display their mail services'.
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Bottom line? Google's got balls. They repeatedly stressed that they dont track user statistics by services crossover or hits per person, but by user utility. The fact that they would allow and even per-emptively OFFER access to offsite mail shows that they're not just pulling our legs about that mantra . .
Sorry folks, but Google has fallen waaaaay short here. This is nothing to get excited about yet. I seriously doubt that the Yahoo! bashers here on /. have used MyYahoo! more than 20 minutes in the last two years. It offers a hell of a lot more, and it is totally customizable.
And I am by no means anti-Google. Google Maps is a killer app. Gmail is a super-slick email interface. But the Google portal so far is really quaint. If you thinking I'm kidding, check out Yahoo! on the Wayback Machine, circa 1998.
Google has homepage link to Slashdot stories about Google.
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Checked it out in T-Bird.
Go to FF. Hit Reload. Message gone.
Bloody fast.
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i think they should call it "own page", sounds like "home page" but it's your own page.
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and properly done it. And, somehow, they make a whole lot of money doing it.
Not only are they kicking everone else's large scale web development ass, they look GOOD doing it.
There's no `next` link on the new GoogleGroups beta. I emailed them about it but apparantly it's not supposed to have a `next` link anymore. There used to be little coloured squares on the left, which were highlighted to show you which 10 articles you were looking at. Google didn't say anything about them.
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So, apparantly, if you go, say, here:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.music.cla
and scroll down to the bottom of the 10 articles, the way to see the next page of 10 articles is to randomly click on the frame on the left until you find what you think is the article that's being displayed on the right, then scroll down on the page to the bottom, look at the posters name, look back to the left, try and find the relevant post (tricky if there are more than one post by the same person)...
Am I missing something here? Click on that link and tell me how to get to the next page. Bear in mind that on the old Google Groups system, and Deja News before it, you just clicked a `next` link, once.
I love this new customize google since i use a lot of the features separately, but it takes a long time for /. stories to be updated. As of this posting (8:40 am eastern) the latest /. headline still hasn't shown up (BSA Reacts to 'New' BitTorrent Posted by CowboyNeal on Fri May 20, 07:54 AM) that's almost an hour lag. since most /.ers refresh slash every 5 minutes, that's no good.