Just a quick reminder that iGoogle is closing down in three days.
In one of the company’s “spring cleaning” announcements over the Summer it was
announced that the personalized homepage product was drawing to a close.
iGoogle allowed users to create personalized homepages that
featured news they cared about, weather updates, and various other pieces of
information provided by Google and
third-party vendors.
Some Google products draw a lot of outcry when they are released,
for example, the Google Reader product which spurred various new RSS
applications. Yahoo, apparently realizing that some users would not be happy
with the iGoogle closure, introduced an import tool for its own homepage
redesign. The import tool was announced as part of the My Yahoo product update.
For iGoogle users who don’t want to join the ranks of Yahoo users
there are a number of alternatives which also offer personalized homepages. A
few that come to mind include:
Source:Inquistr
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