Why Google sucks today...
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I've had the same home page for the past 6 years, iGoogle. I really like having those little gadgets on my page for my email, twitter, weather, news, stocks, chat, and RSS feeds. Now, Google says that they are going to be shutting it down on November 1, 2013 :mad:: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664197[^] From reading how they came to this decision, it sounds like they are unhappy with the low level of lock-in to Chrome and Android the site provides. :rolleyes: Although, by then, I'll have my Surface with Windows 8 and can replace all of that functionality with Metro... and set my home page to Bing :cool:
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Karl Sanford wrote:
Although, by then, I'll have my Surface with Windows 8 and can replace all of that functionality with Metro
and if there's one thing MS is known for, it's never abandoning technologies.
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I've had the same home page for the past 6 years, iGoogle. I really like having those little gadgets on my page for my email, twitter, weather, news, stocks, chat, and RSS feeds. Now, Google says that they are going to be shutting it down on November 1, 2013 :mad:: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664197[^] From reading how they came to this decision, it sounds like they are unhappy with the low level of lock-in to Chrome and Android the site provides. :rolleyes: Although, by then, I'll have my Surface with Windows 8 and can replace all of that functionality with Metro... and set my home page to Bing :cool:
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I don't understand the rational of it. iGoogle is working properly, I'm certain it does not cost that much to keep it alive, you can even stop new development on it (stop added new gadgets and clear out all the unused gadgets)
Watched code never compiles.
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I've had the same home page for the past 6 years, iGoogle. I really like having those little gadgets on my page for my email, twitter, weather, news, stocks, chat, and RSS feeds. Now, Google says that they are going to be shutting it down on November 1, 2013 :mad:: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664197[^] From reading how they came to this decision, it sounds like they are unhappy with the low level of lock-in to Chrome and Android the site provides. :rolleyes: Although, by then, I'll have my Surface with Windows 8 and can replace all of that functionality with Metro... and set my home page to Bing :cool:
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I've had the same home page for the past 6 years, iGoogle. I really like having those little gadgets on my page for my email, twitter, weather, news, stocks, chat, and RSS feeds. Now, Google says that they are going to be shutting it down on November 1, 2013 :mad:: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664197[^] From reading how they came to this decision, it sounds like they are unhappy with the low level of lock-in to Chrome and Android the site provides. :rolleyes: Although, by then, I'll have my Surface with Windows 8 and can replace all of that functionality with Metro... and set my home page to Bing :cool:
Be The Noise
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I've had the same home page for the past 6 years, iGoogle. I really like having those little gadgets on my page for my email, twitter, weather, news, stocks, chat, and RSS feeds. Now, Google says that they are going to be shutting it down on November 1, 2013 :mad:: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664197[^] From reading how they came to this decision, it sounds like they are unhappy with the low level of lock-in to Chrome and Android the site provides. :rolleyes: Although, by then, I'll have my Surface with Windows 8 and can replace all of that functionality with Metro... and set my home page to Bing :cool:
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There is an iGoogle?? :) Looks like I'm not missing anything!
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Funnily enough, I sit next to Bing Crosby.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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I had several college friends that had interned with Microsoft and had gotten hired for after graduation, and even they used Google... Talk about solidarity... :laugh:
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Nice find, thanks for the tip.
Tim Corey wrote:
What I would really like is something that would...
I'm seriously considering just making my own version of iGoogle so that I can get exactly what I want.
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Karl Sanford wrote:
'm seriously considering just making my own version of iGoogle so that I can get exactly what I want.
If someone does, I reckon they would make a mint through advertising. I feel an idontGoogle.com site coming on...
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I've had the same home page for the past 6 years, iGoogle. I really like having those little gadgets on my page for my email, twitter, weather, news, stocks, chat, and RSS feeds. Now, Google says that they are going to be shutting it down on November 1, 2013 :mad:: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664197[^] From reading how they came to this decision, it sounds like they are unhappy with the low level of lock-in to Chrome and Android the site provides. :rolleyes: Although, by then, I'll have my Surface with Windows 8 and can replace all of that functionality with Metro... and set my home page to Bing :cool:
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Um, why don't you write your own home page and keep the primary source on your local machine, like the rest of us?
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