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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."
Googleweiss, Googleweiss, Every morning you greet me, Small and white, clean and bright, Works in Gecko and IE. Don't be complex Just search and index, Don't be evil forever, Googleweiss, Googleweiss, Bless my homepage forever.
By the time you've rhymed one line, I've already busted ten; You rap in exponential time and I'm big-O of log(n).
hmm. they missed a reason.
"so we can more easily track the users of our services, what they search on, where they live, what other sites they read, what movies they like, etc, etc.."
why else is an account required? their regular preferences only set's a cookie that can be wiped out. all of the personalized features, except gmail, could have also been done that way. and you still cant add back a link to 'directory' to the main page or search results. sheesh.
i'll stick with my borked google http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/ no froogle, no 'local' no clutter, just search, images, groups, directory.
they just found a handy, dandy way to tie everything together under a single signin.
This is really great. Being able to access the services in one page makes surfing easier. No need to go to hop from one website to another. Cool move, Google!