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iGoogle is Google's name for its personalized homepage service. In fact, iGoogle was previously known as "Google Personalized Homepage" until that was rebranded at the end of April 2007. iGoogle allows users to dress-up the Google homepage with "gadgets" such as clocks or games, as well as feed content that provides headlines and information from sites across the web. Google provides more information about iGoogle here, and the stories below provide coverage about iGoogle from Search Engine Land.
Apr. 21, 2008 at 3:06pm by Greg Sterling
Google Opens Developer "Sandbox" For iGoogle
iGoogle is one of the most interesting products at the search engine. Reportedly the fastest growing of Google's offerings, it's a personal start page or dashboard, but with potential to evolve into something more. Today Google announced "a sandbox for developers that helps them build richer gadgets for iGoogle, which...
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Feb. 28, 2008 at 1:48pm by Vanessa Fox
Google Webmaster Tools: Now On Your iGoogle Homepage
Google's Webmaster Central is giving you a new way to access the diagnostics and stats for your sites. Rather than log into your Webmaster Tools account, you can add the Webmaster Tools gadget to your iGoogle page and access information from there. You can choose what components to display on...
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Jan. 24, 2008 at 12:21am by Vanessa Fox
Customizing Your Search With Ask.com
Don't like the backgrounds available on Ask.com? No problem. Now you can upload any image you want. For instance, maybe you'd like this one! The new background feature is part of the skinning ability launched as part of Ask3D last year. The other engines offer some customization features as well....
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Dec. 1, 2007 at 1:11pm by Danny Sullivan
Tracking Santa: NORAD & Google Team Up For Christmas
Every year, I enjoy helping my kids track the approach of Santa Claus through the NORAD site, as I've written about before. This year, Google's getting in on the action. You'll be able to track Santa in Google Earth on Christmas Eve with the help of a special file....
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Nov. 14, 2007 at 9:23am by Greg Sterling
Inbox 2.0: Vision And Perhaps Confusion At Google And Yahoo
A much discussed blog posting this morning comes from Saul Hansell at the New York Times, who spoke to both Google and Yahoo about their plans to turn their email products into social networks, in a manner of speaking: "Inbox 2.0." The plans discussed in the post suggest some clever...
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Nov. 6, 2007 at 8:29am by Barry Schwartz
iGoogle Gets New Themes; Google China Gets New Home Page
Google has added five new themes to iGoogle. Google Blogoscoped and Google Operating System both have posts on the new themes, which include a Solar System theme, an Autumn theme, a Hong Kong theme, a JR The Monster theme, and an Aja Tiger theme. Google China is also testing out...
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Sep. 13, 2007 at 9:55pm by Danny Sullivan
New Feed Subscriber Stats & User Interface For Google Webmaster Central
Google Webmaster Central has gone live with a new "subscriber stats" area showing statistics of how many people read your feeds through the iGoogle personalized home page and Google Reader, as well as a new look and user interface for GWC. Below, more about both, as well as issues for...
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Jun. 27, 2007 at 7:16pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Now Reporting Number Of Users Per Gadget
Got a Google Gadget? Google's now reporting how many users make use of it, in addition to the pageviews figures it started posting earlier this year. The new user stats can be found via Google's Homepage Content Directory. There you'll see gadgets that can be added to your iGoogle...
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May. 8, 2007 at 9:37am by Barry Schwartz
Looking For iGoogle? It's Been Removed, Says Google
If you are looking for iGoogle, you may use Google to search for igoogle only to find out that Google has told us "iGoogle has been removed."...
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May. 7, 2007 at 8:59am by Barry Schwartz
Google Launches "Gadget Ads" Beta
Google Tests 'Gadget Ads' from MediaPost reports Google has begun testing a new ad product named "Gadget Ads." In short, the Google Gadgets you see across the web and on your "iGoogle" (Google personalized) home page will begin to contain ads in them. Currently the ads are being testing in...
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May. 1, 2007 at 8:46am by Greg Sterling
iGoogle, Personalized Search And You
Yesterday was "Google Personalization Day" for me and a number of others who attended a meeting at Google with Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience, as well as Google Personalization Technical Lead Sep Kamvar and iGoogle Product Manager Jessica Ewing. Barry has captured much of the factual...
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Apr. 30, 2007 at 5:44pm by Barry Schwartz
Google To Merge Personalized Services To "iGoogle" Brand
Today is Google Personalization Day at Google, where reporters and bloggers have been invited to learn more about Google's moves to personalize its services. Our own Greg Sterling is there and will be providing coverage out of the event later. However, some news is already flowing out now. For one,...
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Apr. 26, 2007 at 2:05pm by Barry Schwartz
Settings For Google Personalized Homepage Disappear For Many
Philipp Lenssen reports that dozens if not hundreds of Google Personalized Home Page users have lost their personalized settings. As of now, I currently see my customized and tailored Google home page but literally hundreds of people are commenting at Google Blogoscoped, Digg.com and Google Groups about this exact issue....
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Mar. 20, 2007 at 12:54am by Greg Sterling
Google Offers 'Themes' For Personalized Homepage
There's a flurry of activity in the newly invigorated personalized homepage category. Within the past two weeks all the major competitors have made announcements. First, AOL launched MyNetscape, followed by the release of "universal video widgets" on Pageflakes. Then the new MyYahoo launched. Yesterday Netvibes unveiled "Coriander," its next product...
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Mar. 5, 2007 at 9:17am by Eric Ward
Google Personalized Search, Google Bookmarks & Link Building
There's been a bit of a panic among some SEOs that the ramp up of Google Personalized Search Results last month will mean the end of SEO. But aside from the impact personalized search will have on SEO, personalized search also impacts link building related activities. Some of that impact is...
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Feb. 16, 2007 at 10:46am by Danny Sullivan
Google Reader Reporting Subscriber Numbers, Offers New Publishers Guide
Google Reader has now announced that it is now providing subscriber counts, the number of people who read your blog through feeds at Google Reader or the Google Personalized Homepage. In addition a new Google Reader Publishers Guide has been posted with tips on how to get add to Google...
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Feb. 2, 2007 at 10:46pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Ramps Up Personalized Search
Google is stepping up the push into personalized search results. A new change announced today should cause many more people to take up the service. In turn, the growth of personalized search should have a dramatic impact on search marketers as the days of "same results, all around" eventually come...
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Jan. 23, 2007 at 8:56am by Barry Schwartz
Google Adds RSS Snippets To Personalized Home Page
Google Personalized Home Page Adds Expand & Collapse Per Post at the Search Engine Roundtable is where I discussed how Google has added RSS snippets to the Google personalized home page. Google has added these plus signs, next to each RSS title, if clicked, it will open up and show...
