Google is killing iGoogle

[forrestcupp]

Google is shutting down a few of their services. I can understand shutting down Google Video, since they acquired YouTube. But what were they thinking when they decided to shut down iGoogle. I know a lot of people who use iGoogle as their home page.

I'm checking out Netvibes as a replacement.

[JDShu]

I can understand their reasoning and I never used iGoogle heavily. It's one of those services that not a lot of people use, but those that use it use it heavily. I just hope they don't remove Reader in the same fashion.

I will need to find a better way to track schedules and scores once college football season comes along though!

[Frogs Hair]

I really didn't know personalized home pages were still popular. I used a home page on my first computer for a couple of years but not since. Opera Unite is history also and it was referred to as a "legacy platform"

[forrestcupp]

I really didn't know personalized home pages were still popular. I used a home page on my first computer for a couple of years but not since. Opera Unite is history also and it was referred to as a "legacy platform"

If you don't have any home page at all, what comes up when you open your web browser?

[AlanR8]

Google....

[3Miro]

Chromium and Firefox have the feature to give you a list of most commonly used web-pages and that's the first thing you see when you start your browser.

Technically a personal web-page would be for others to see, but then most people are probably using Facebook. If you want your own page for yourself, then you can just make it a file on your machine and unless you want to use PHP you don't even have to install a web-server (JavaScript and HTML5 don't need a web-sever, only PHP does).

[forrestcupp]

Chromium and Firefox have the feature to give you a list of most commonly used web-pages and that's the first thing you see when you start your browser.

Which is usually one of the first things I change in my browser in a new install. I have my bookmark toolbar for that. I think it's more useful to start out with a page that gives me a lot of useful information at a glance, like the weather and different kinds of news.

Technically a personal web-page would be for others to see, but then most people are probably using Facebook. If you want your own page for yourself, then you can just make it a file on your machine and unless you want to use PHP you don't even have to install a web-server (JavaScript and HTML5 don't need a web-sever, only PHP does).

There's a difference between a personal web page and a personalized web page. A personalized web page is something that I set up to suit my own needs.

I definitely don't think they're useless. That's why I'm trying out Netvibes right now, which is a decent replacement for iGoogle.

[3Miro]

There's a difference between a personal web page and a personalized web page. A personalized web page is something that I set up to suit my own needs.

I definitely don't think they're useless. That's why I'm trying out Netvibes right now, which is a decent replacement for iGoogle.

I see what you mean, a personalized web-page is useful, but my guess is that not too many people care about it.

[stalkingwolf]

My wife and i both use igoogle. i have several news pages, moon phases, weather and two pages of tech stuff. Hers has different colors and things of interest to her.

it is one of the first things i set on a new install.

[Paqman]

My wife and i both use igoogle.

Same here. I have a few bits and pieces on mine: my recent Google Docs, my Remember the Milk list and some links. She has an absolute bucketload of stuff on hers.

I will miss it, but it's not going for another year, so there's plenty of time to adapt my habits.