Google Loves Apple? iGoogle Launched
I was reading over at TechCrunch that Google personalized homepages were re-launching as iGoogle. When I logged into my account, sure enough, there it was; iGoogle.
iGoogle Hosted on ZooomrNow, most things that start with an i followed by a product name remind me of Apple. I think it was that iMac that started it all and of course the iPod, iTunes and wealth of other i stuff. Is Google keen on Apple? Well probably not.
The old personalized homepages were known as ig - http://www.google.com/ig - so they just expanded upon that and spelled it out; iGoogle.
To me, the name change is cool. I like it and think it helps separate Google from the personalized area a bit more. Having recently started to ramp up my personal homepage use, the iGoogle name is a welcome addition.
Rock on iGoogle!
The renaming is benign, so I have no issue with that. I just can’t use their apps esp. when I see Google Desktop indexing everything on my personal machine.
- Stephan H May 1st, 2007 at 11:55 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 - Mac OS X
You can tell it what to index and what not to index.
- Thomas May 1st, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 - Mac OS X
Oh I know, but it still freaks me out. I would like to know how many people actually use Google for their calendar and the like.
- Stephan H May 1st, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 - Mac OS X
igoogle has around 7 million users as of now, my yahoo is the leader with some 50 million users. but these guys support widgets which my yahoo doesn’t, and some other stuff also…lets see whether igoogle can catch up with my yahoo. got these stats from a post on http://www.watblog.com
- Himmat May 3rd, 2007 at 8:24 am
Internet Explorer 6.0 - Windows XP
I switched from Yahoo to iGoogle the very first day it came out. Google guys did a great job but I just can’t stand the calendar. It’s an awful app and hopefully they’ll work on it to make it better and reliable. I’m comfortable with all the other apps Google brought to us all.
- Johnny May 8th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 - Windows XP
What’s wrong with Google Calendar? I like it a lot.
- Thomas May 9th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 - Mac OS X