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A Peek at Personalized Google

Posted by timothy on from the must-resist-comment-about-evil dept.

Seoulstriker writes "Sci-tech Today is describing how Google will be offering customized homepages as seen here. Is this one step closer to Google becoming a web portal like Yahoo? Although it is not currently in Beta, it is only available through the Google Labs site. It definitely doesn't look like Yahoo yet, but I don't want my search site to be any more cluttered than it is now."

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  1. Google by XanC · · Score: 5, Funny
    They just seem to be everybody's best friend. Google can do no wrong!

    I just hope they don't execute Order 66...

    1. Re:Google by PsychicX · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm so confused:
      Google
      Yahoo

  2. You know it's a dupe when... by The+Hobo · · Score: 4, Funny

    One of the links on the story shows up darker than the rest. (For those who don't get it, firefox shows visited slashdot links as darker)

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    1. Re:You know it's a dupe when... by pdbaby · · Score: 5, Funny

      You know it's slashdot when we rely on our browser first to tell us that the story's a dupe before we bother using our memories

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    2. Re:You know it's a dupe when... by justforaday · · Score: 4, Funny

      I restarted my computer between that story and this one, so it's not in my memory anymore...

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    3. Re:You know it's a dupe when... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      >For those who don't get it, firefox shows visited slashdot links as darker

      Welcome to the World Wide Web.
      Let me show you around a bit. Over here we have what we call a "Hyperlink". A hyperlink has a number of features.
      Hyperlinks are usually underlined, and usually a different colour to the rest of the text (blue by convention, unless the web site design specifies otherwise)
      When you click on a hyperlink, you web browser will take you to the page it references.
      If you have already been to that page, the hyperlink will be a different colour to one that refers to a page you have not visited (purple by convention or sometimes red, depending on the browser, unless the web site design specifies otherwise).

      This is standard behaviour in all graphical web browsers, and has been since HTML was invented, around about 15 years ago. I appreciate that you probably weren't born then, and so therefore may think this is a new feature, or one limited to Firefox.

    4. Re:You know it's a dupe when... by ginotech · · Score: 4, Funny

      Welcome to Slashdot...over here we have a pedant...and over there, too...and there. oh wait, there's another one.

  3. Cluttered search engine? How about crap editors? by furiousgeorge · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would you want it cluttered enough so it could spot the dupe story? I could see that being useful to the lazy editors.

  4. The comment on evil by cspring007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok, google is either perfect or really really evil.
    Not the big blundering stupid kind of evil that microsoft is, but the creepy really really bad kind of evil.
    Like the kind of evil in that story 'event horizon' where everyone rips their eyes out.

    ...or they are just really really good at internet programming

  5. Re:Wow by ucblockhead · · Score: 4, Funny

    (4) should go between (1) and (2)

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  6. Re:Wow by uchi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since when are /. readers and "unwashed masses" not one in the same? I could have swore that being unwashed was part of the conditions you agreed to by reading this site.

  7. Re:Wow by mrchaotica · · Score: 4, Funny
    4. I read /.
    In other words, the non-fucking geniuses.
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