Google Adds Tabs To Personalized Homepage

googleI love the per­son­al­ized Google Home­page. It allows you to add con­tent to the famil­iar stark white Google home page. I use it to see the weather, view my cal­en­dar, and pre­view incom­ing Gmail mes­sages. The per­son­al­ized home­page has many other great mod­ules. How­ever the prob­lem I have faced is that by adding mod­ules, the page just gets too busy. One rea­son Google is great is that it is such a clean site. So up until today I had to con­stantly resist the temp­ta­tion to add Magic 8 Ball, Pac-Man, Dil­bert, CNN, The Econ­o­mist, Seth Godin, a timer, WMUB, WYSO, and other inter­est­ing mod­ules to my per­son­al­ized Google page. I chose to avoid the clut­ter and kept my Google pretty clean, but I was miss­ing out on all that cool con­tent. Today, my prob­lem has been solved. Google has added tabs to the Per­son­al­ized Home­page. “So What?” you say. “Why is that cool?” you won­der. Well, now I can load up all my favorite mod­ules into indi­vid­ual pages, keep­ing my Google home­page clean, while still giv­ing me access to all the fun toys I love. Now I can cre­ate mul­ti­ple tabbed pages for National News, Local News, Blog Feeds, Games, Gad­gets, Music, and more. This addi­tion changes Google from a page, into a truly cus­tomized site con­tain­ing all the con­tent I seek and orga­nized in any for­mat I choose. I just dis­cov­ered this today, and I am not sure if this has been around for a while or not. Have you seen this? What is your impres­sion? How will you use this func­tion­al­ity? Thanks Google for mak­ing the things I like even better.

One Response to Google Adds Tabs To Personalized Homepage

  1. Sovereign John October 12, 2006 at 4:28 pm #

    With the Gov­ern­ment demand­ing that Google and other search engines give them your infor­ma­tion is cre­at­ing a web­page with your per­sonal infor­ma­tion on it rather risky?

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