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Google Re-launches Personal Homepages

by Terrence O'Brien on May 3, 2007 at 05:43 PM

The gods of search have officially re-branded their Google Personalized Homepage as iGoogle. Two years ago, Google launched Personalized Homepage, which allowed users to tailor their Google experience by plopping 'gadgets' on the page to display stuff like weather, stock reports and news headlines.

The switch to iGoogle brings with it the ability to actually create content for these gadgets, allowing users to easily put everything from blog entries to photos to YouTube videos on their homepages with nary a lick programming experience required. iGoogle also features personalized search results and content based on a user's Web history and geographical location.

What's interesting, as PC World points out, is that the 'iGoogle' name has been kicking around for quite some time. Since the day Personalized Homepages launched in 2005, they were found at www.google.com/ig ( . . . that's 'ig' as in 'iGoogle,' genius).

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