New Google Homepage Features

SecularG writes "It seems that Google has added new features to it's Personalized Home. To edit the content of your personalized homepage you click 'Add Content' in the top right, and a list of options slide out from the left. You can add your own bookmarks, select from more news feeds, and add your own RSS news feeds." Of course since Slashdot is already available from their default list of technology sites, why would you need the ability to include an RSS feed?

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Google not the innovator here.

[ballstothat]

My Yahoo! has had this RSS feed via portal-page for a while now, and Google is simply playing catch-up to their competitor.

Its not always Google that is the new hotness.

Re:Google not the innovator here.

[generic-man]

Yahoo! also has the advantage in that they have integrated RSS into their search. Notice that a few of the sites have "RSS: ... Add to My Yahoo!" in the search results. Very handy.

Re:Google not the innovator here.

[generic-man]

I can. You can't drag the boxes around (yet) but it's far more customizable than Google's. Yes, it has ads, but Google plans to add ads to their customizable home page too.

sorry but your browser is not supported

[pair-a-noyd]

Microsoft IE 5.5+ (download: Windows)
- Netscape 7.1+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Mozilla 1.4+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Mozilla Firefox 0.8+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Safari 1.2.1+ (download: Mac)
Many other browsers work with Gmail's basic HTML view, including:
- Microsoft IE 4.0+
- Netscape 4.07+
- Opera 6.03+

Konqueror users are still SOL

Re:sorry but your browser is not supported

[oever]

I'm using konqueror 3.4.1 with default authentication and the site works very well. It's amazing what google can do with javascript!

Re:Countdown until Google.com looks like

[vinlud]

The difference is this isn't google.com, but google.com/ig, a portal you choose to visit. If you're just googling you wont notice.

Re:Countdown until Google.com looks like

[learn fast]

yahoo.com. What a pointless and crowded web portal.

use search.yahoo.com for a bare bones interface

Re:Countdown until Google.com looks like

[rbarreira]

Don't be an idiot, please.

Re:How freaking difficult is this?

[snorklewacker]

> Because it's illogical: most other possessives have an apostrophe.

Like Your's, Hi's, Her's, Their's, and Our's?

I wish the language would evolve in the opposite direction and lose the apostrophe, everywhere.

Re:Not working on firefox?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's one of your extensions. For mee it was the google customize extension. I removed it and problem solved...

Wiki's

[r2q2]

Some people have community based wiki's that they might want to be updated on for recent changes.

won't work with customize google ff extension

[frieked]

If you are running the customize google firefox extension these new features will work very poorly or not at all depending on what preferences you have set. Just an FYI for anyone having problems.

Re:A dud?

[Anonymous Coward]

You can change the arrangement of the blocks.
Click > Drag.

Re:Not updated

[comwiz56]

That would be a matter of slashdot's RSS policy (30 min between checks), not Google's fault.

Re:highly editorialized?

[Ingolfke]

They've got the RSS option, so you can pull any data source in RSS that you'd like into the Portal.

Fox News (US & World) RSS Feed
Fox News RSS List

The Washington Times appears to offer their headlines via RSS only to subscribers.

Democracy Now

Re:Obviously...

[Electrum]

But does /. ban google for hitting its RSS too often?

Yes. I have seen that happen at least once.