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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. Clutter... by oneiron · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

    Fortunately, you can edit all of the clutter out of the interface, if you want to.

    1. Re:Clutter... by BinLadenMyHero · · Score: 4, Informative

      In fact, I never go to google.com. I use the "Quick Search" feature of Firefox to do all my searches (g for google l for google/linux img google images def for google define fm for freshmeat man for man pages cpan for perl modules w for wikipedia and so on..)

      There's also a handy extension that allows me to select text and open a right-click menu with all those searches for that text.

  2. Greasemonkey oportunity by Jesse_132 · · Score: 4, Informative
    I know several people are already working on adding stuff to this using Greasemonkey!
    • Have your persistant searches there
    • Delicious popular
    • Integrate TadaList
    It is using tables and shouldn't be to hard to monkey up.
  3. Slashdot option by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    I think it's great that one of the choices is "Slashdot"

  4. Re:Google by 3770 · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yes.

    --
    The Internet is full. Go Away!!!
  5. order 66 - wikipedia by swansmt · · Score: 0, Informative

    For those who don't know, Order 66 is The Great Jedi Purge
    /karmawhore

  6. As noted in the original story: by steeef · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the FAQ:

    6. Why did you mess up the clean, crisp Google homepage?

    We didn't. If you want to keep using the original Google homepage, you can. In fact, we expect that many users will. The personalized homepage is for those users who want to see more of the information that matters to them in the same place. You can always switch back and forth between your personalized homepage and the original Google homepage by clicking "Classic Home" or "Personalized Home." ...

    If you don't like it, don't use it. Google isn't going to make this their default page.

  7. Re:So.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    I'm not a protein crystallographer, but I do work at a synchrotron and do lots of x-ray absorption and diffraction experiments. I've never had a problem with x-ray damage to my samples (mostly inorganic solids). Susceptibility to radiation damage varies from material to material. From my understanding, protein crystals are particularly bad, presumably because they not respond well (in a chemical sense) to the large numbers of electrons generated after an x-ray absorption event. This basically causes impurities in the crystal (local changes in the structure factor) that degrade the diffraction measurement. Also, in your typical protein diffraction experiment, you irradiate a particular spot on the crystal for a very long time. I would guess that this is not so much an issue in this case, because (1) no one is really interested in the chemical structure of the parchment itself, and (2) a particular spot on the sample is exposed only for a very short time. Incidentally, there's a better write-up of this at Stanford: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/may25/a rchimedes-052505.html [stanford.edu]

  8. search.yahoo.com by generalleoff · · Score: 2, Informative

    I dont much mind if google is trying to be another yahoo as long as they follow yahoos lead and create search.google.com. search.yahoo.com is a none bloated search only version of yahoo for those that never saw it.

  9. yahoo still slower due to URL redirections by free2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    even search.yahoo.com is still slower due to URL redirections in each link of the search result page