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Google.com tests a busier home page with a row of info cards

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It reminds me the old iGoogle personalized homepage with tabs, themes and movable window widgets with news, inbox, weather, maps, calendar and other things.

I was going to say the same thing. My parents loved their iGoogle home page and were sad when it went away.

The main reason Google did well in the past is that it was a fast alternative to the busy Yahoo!.

I don’t think this is quite true. The main reason Google did well was because their search results were reliably good. The clean homepage wasn’t so much a contributing factor as a boast, saying that they were confident search could replace the “directory” style others like Yahoo provided at the time. And, at the time, they were right. I have little doubt that they would’ve failed if they had the same interface with today’s search results.

How long until they go full Yahoo?

Looks a lot like the content from the Google Feed to the left of the Pixel homescreen, meaning it'll be entirely ads, clickbait, and spoilers for shows you're in the middle of watching

Google can fight their death about as well as anyone can fight wrinkles that come with age. It can be slowed but is inevitable.

I mean, that's totally fine. How often do people even visit their home page? People who want to search things, just use the URL bar, so you might as well make your homepage useful.

whyd they get rid of iGoogle

I just thought that too. I used to use it quite a lot.

Googling for iGoogle turns up igoogleportal.com[0] as the top result.

[0] https://igoogleportal.com/

Using the get started link on igoogleportal.com redirects to igtab.com .

Looking at the page you'd find a disclaimer that it's not associated with Google .

Legal disclaimer shows jurisdiction of the website seems to be Akola, Maharashtra , India.

Remember eXcite?

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