google.com— If anyone has a Google account and uses the personalized homepage, they've added tabbing to your page so you can load different feeds on the same page. Just go to the Google homepage and sign-in.
Sep 14, 2006View in Crawl 4
This is cool, but I really wish Google would allow its users to upload a custom stylesheet for our homepages. The functionality is great as always with Google, but maybe it's time for Google to hire a graphics team. Either make some templates of skins or let your users make our own skins!
lol... did Paris Hilton tell you to say that?But yeah seriously... google kicks some ass and will probably keep on kicking ass. A year from now I really wouldn't be surprised (at all) if a Operating System-ish web based page/site/environment is very real (I'm sure most of you will say there are already a lot of sites out there...which is all well and good). Meebo could really do a lot more with their little web interface... you guys see how they've already incorporated a google search tab that is collapsable ... just imagine if they start implementing tabs in their interface... that would be freaking sweet. SWEET!!!!
Do Google ever release really good stuff? Apart from obviously Google.com I can't think of much, Gmail aside (which is amazing).All their other great products/services - Google Earth, Sketchup, Writely, Blogger.com, Picasa, Analytics, etc are all from acquisitions.Everything else seems to be in eternal beta or just very basic indeed. Google Talk is JUST about getting on it's feet, which is great. But it's still got a way to go.It seems they still aren't sure which direction to take Google Video and YouTube has just basically made it look insignificant. Google Checkout, Page Creator, Base, etc... I know many are just Lab products but I can't help but think they should concentrate on less products, pushing them futher through development to make them a little more heavyweight.As for /ig? It's been my homepage for as long as I can remember but I still wonder why sometimes. The only real positive is that it's very quick. It offers very little functionality and I know it's not a huge point but it looks dated and ugly! I'm suprised they didn't do something like buy out netvibes.com or something similar.ANYWAY, ranting aside, it's a step in the right direction.
It works forme in Firefox, but not in Safari. Hope google fixes that soon. The only thing I really want a tab for is to throw my search history into so its off my homepage.
some of the content for IG, including the tabbed GUI and google calendar are not compatible with google sites other than the .com (noteably the australian and uk site)unfortunately this means you either can't use this content or have to use the us site until it has been implemented in the worldwide sites.
squeeveySep 14, 2006
I was going to do the same, then i searched and realized how long it's been live. I'm too slow.
ambiguusSep 14, 2006
Windows Live has the feature as well, I wonder if google decided to go forth on it based on that.
Closed AccountSep 14, 2006
This is cool, but I really wish Google would allow its users to upload a custom stylesheet for our homepages. The functionality is great as always with Google, but maybe it's time for Google to hire a graphics team. Either make some templates of skins or let your users make our own skins!
mdwvtSep 14, 2006
lol... did Paris Hilton tell you to say that?But yeah seriously... google kicks some ass and will probably keep on kicking ass. A year from now I really wouldn't be surprised (at all) if a Operating System-ish web based page/site/environment is very real (I'm sure most of you will say there are already a lot of sites out there...which is all well and good). Meebo could really do a lot more with their little web interface... you guys see how they've already incorporated a google search tab that is collapsable ... just imagine if they start implementing tabs in their interface... that would be freaking sweet. SWEET!!!!
thesoongSep 14, 2006
Do Google ever release really good stuff? Apart from obviously Google.com I can't think of much, Gmail aside (which is amazing).All their other great products/services - Google Earth, Sketchup, Writely, Blogger.com, Picasa, Analytics, etc are all from acquisitions.Everything else seems to be in eternal beta or just very basic indeed. Google Talk is JUST about getting on it's feet, which is great. But it's still got a way to go.It seems they still aren't sure which direction to take Google Video and YouTube has just basically made it look insignificant. Google Checkout, Page Creator, Base, etc... I know many are just Lab products but I can't help but think they should concentrate on less products, pushing them futher through development to make them a little more heavyweight.As for /ig? It's been my homepage for as long as I can remember but I still wonder why sometimes. The only real positive is that it's very quick. It offers very little functionality and I know it's not a huge point but it looks dated and ugly! I'm suprised they didn't do something like buy out netvibes.com or something similar.ANYWAY, ranting aside, it's a step in the right direction.
neuropsychguySep 15, 2006
This isn't the sign-up by mobile phone thing they had going on.
lrgabrielSep 15, 2006
Anyone else think google's starting to get way too much information on each individual consumer? Maybe the next step in marketing/advertising...
brotheralienSep 15, 2006
Now if only there was a way to show bookmarks specific to a tab rather than have them all lumped together on one...
kalmiSep 15, 2006
Can I turn it off?It is just irritating for me...Space-consuming...
mpanchaSep 24, 2006
It works forme in Firefox, but not in Safari. Hope google fixes that soon. The only thing I really want a tab for is to throw my search history into so its off my homepage.
adama1Sep 29, 2006
some of the content for IG, including the tabbed GUI and google calendar are not compatible with google sites other than the .com (noteably the australian and uk site)unfortunately this means you either can't use this content or have to use the us site until it has been implemented in the worldwide sites.