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iGoogle Going Away

lugesm

lugesm

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Sep 7, 2007
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It seems that iGoogle is going to disappear. Shortly.:mad:
Any clue as to what this means?

Is this just another part of the Google/Apple wars?

iGoogle has been my primary reader page on all of my Apple mobile devices since it was first available. This will be sorely missed.
 
qCzar said:
While it was used by an increasing minority, I wouldn't call it an experimental project. iGoogle has been around for about six years.
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Sorry I had kind of gone off topic, but it wasn't exactly a flagship was it!

I was more talking about the likes of wave and buzz.
 
Hello... said:
Yeah sad, read the news daily....
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Yes, I had mine organized to read Apple news, general technology news, right-wing news, left-wing news (the contrast was interesting), and technology 'deals.'
That is all neatly organized on my Safari opening page, and I read it daily.

Now, I can get all that, but only by opening multiple pages and searching and searching . . . . .

I am disappointed.:(
 
lugesm said:
Yes, I had mine organized to read Apple news, general technology news, right-wing news, left-wing news (the contrast was interesting), and technology 'deals.'
That is all neatly organized on my Safari opening page, and I read it daily.

Now, I can get all that, but only by opening multiple pages and searching and searching . . . . .

I am disappointed.:(
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I was shocked to see the banner on igoogle too! :(
 
Saw the banner this morning. Kind of disappointed. I leave my iGoogle page up all the time.

Hopefully there is something as good or better to replace it.
 
AppleDApp said:
How about using google reader to get all the latest news.
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iGoogle does more than just the news. It also has little widgets for checking my Gmail, showing me sports scores, stock quotes, all in one convenient place which I use as my home page. I'm really disappointed that the program's ending, but I'm also old enough to know that the only constant is change.

Are there any users out there that have found a suitable replacement?
 
www.netvibes.com does the same thing. I tried it a couple of years ago and didn't get into it, but I just looked back and, even though they've re-focussed the site on the business crowd, the basic free version seems to do the same thing it always did.
 
JYork23 said:
iGoogle does more than just the news. It also has little widgets for checking my Gmail, showing me sports scores, stock quotes, all in one convenient place which I use as my home page. I'm really disappointed that the program's ending, but I'm also old enough to know that the only constant is change.

Are there any users out there that have found a suitable replacement?
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I'm sure with the right set of widgets you can get all this info in your dashboard.
 
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