Looking For iGoogle? It’s Been Removed, Says Google

May 8, 2007 at 9:37am ET by Barry Schwartz

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.”

If Google had a meta description tag that used the word iGoogle in it, chances are that the tag would have been used to make a nice, user-friendly description in the Google search results.

Hat tip to Jonathan Hochman.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON Looking For iGoogle? It’s Been Removed, Says Google

Shohom67, May 8th, 2007 at 3:34 pm ET:

Funny, I found this article using iGoogle.

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