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iGoogle: Surfing net on one page

Written on July 27, 2009 | Posted in Reviews |

iGoogle is one of the much talked service of google, formerly known as Google Personalized Homepage and Google IG. It is a customizable AJAX-based startpage or personal web portal much like Netvibes, Alot.com Pageflakes, My Yahoo!, MySurfPad and Windows Live Personalized Experience. Google originally launched this service in May 2005. Its features include the capability to add web feeds and Google Gadgets (similar to those available on Google Desktop).

It was renamed and expanded on April 30, 2007, and is currently available in many localized versions of Google, in 42 languages, and in over 70 country domain names, as of October 17, 2007.

iGoogle is such a interesting service that you can surf your daily common sites like mail checking,Events & Calender monitoring,Chat on social media like facebook,reading RSS feeds,reading Popular news from BBC,CNN etc,Tweeting on Twitter and so on that you use daily.No need to open many tabs for each service.You can enjoy all these on one page that is iGoogle home page.What you have to do Just add your favourite service’s Google gadgets on your iGoogle page.

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Gadgets

iGoogle gadgets interact with the user and utilize the Google Gadgets API. Some gadgets developed for Google Desktop can also be used within iGoogle. The Google Gadgets API is public and allows anyone to develop a gadget for any need.

Google also allows all users to create a special gadget that does not require the use of the Gadgets API. The gadgets are designed to be shared with friends and family.You can browse all iGoogle gadgets from gadgets directory http://www.google.com/ig/directory

Themes:

With iGoogle, users can select unique themes for their Google homepages, of which some are designed by Google and others by the userbase itself.

Still reading?No need to read more just point your browser to http://www.google.com/ig

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