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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?
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?
It takes less bandwidth to see a dupe headline with RSS than it does when one reloads the entire slashdot mainpage. [rimshot]
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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.
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It is at the 'top left' here.
He's talking about the computer 's right.
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On the other hand, I don't think that Google as a whole will turn into Yahoo!. The main Google page will likely always stay simple, whereas the personalized homepage is just for people who want portal stuff. The one advantage that a Google RSS/portal has is the same that Gmail has: everywhere you go, regardless of what computer you're on, it's the same interface and setup. You don't need to configure an RSS reader on each computer you use: just go to Google.com/ig. Same with Gmail.
Also, the dhtml sliding options pane on the left is nifty, but I can't help but think that it's going overboard a little bit.
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yahoo.com. What a pointless and crowded web portal.
use search.yahoo.com for a bare bones interface
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.
Don't be an idiot, please.
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It's good to be reminded that Slashdot is a Technology, not a Lifestyle.
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.
Can you believe this? Yahoo has totally ripped off this way cool feature from google! They have this thing where you can add RSS feeds to your portal to get content from anywhere. Google has had it for a week, and now Yahoo! is jumping on the bandwagon. I'm not sure what this RSS thing is but I'm pretty sure google invented it. Man, they are the greatest company ever.
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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.
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Because it's illogical: most other possessives have an apostrophe. And a short survey of modern English usage (as seen, for example, on Slashdot) will tell you that the usage is changing: quite possibly the apostrophe in the possessive "it's" will be the norm in a few years time.
Still, I'm glad you're not pompous.
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.
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It may yet happen...and in the meantime, we can say we're "Waiting for gDot".