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New Google Homepage Features

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the so-many-submissions-about-this dept.

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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  1. Countdown until Google.com looks like by 55555+Manbabies! · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

    RSS eliminates the need for web portals entirely. You can just use the RSS functionality of Safari for a home page, or make a local page with the RSS feeds you want to see.

    1. Re:Countdown until Google.com looks like by Ieshan · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Okay. I understand the hatred for portal pages, but the truth is, lots and lots of people like them. Why? Because they can't just "make a local page with RSS feeds".

      That would be like taking your car into the mechanic with a transmission problem and having him scoff at you, "Pffft. Go build yourself a new one. Moron."

      The large majority of net users don't know what RSS means. They don't know HTML. Web Portals let people click on things and have a familiar feel to them. People only need to know one little address to get to a place where they can find "everything" on the web.

    2. Re:Countdown until Google.com looks like by revery · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I think you made the parent post's point for him...

  2. Re:Google not the innovator here. by Momoru · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of course when Yahoo did it, it didn't make Slashdot news. Don't worry, in a couple of month's people will start claiming Yahoo ripped that feature off of Google.

  3. Re:A dud? by mboos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm in Toronto, and I can get the weather. What irks me though is the fact that the temperatures default to Fahrenheit. The current temperature also has a Celcius value (but it's secondary) and all the long term forecasts are in Fahrenheit. There is no option to change everything to Celcius. I was only taught Celcius in school, and was led to believe that Fahrenheit was left on the thermometers to appease the old-timers.

    This is the 21st century, people! Let's start using those SI units that everybody* has agreed on.

    *The States not included

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    --Mike Boos