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#1 PCWorld

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 01:06 PM

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#2 DennisDerton

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 01:54 PM

I will miss iGoogle, its my homepage, i use it daily. sad to see it go, could you just not refresh it to more updated content? make it like msn or cnn but better?

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 02:12 PM

Getting rid of iGoogle is a mistake, IMO. What do they expect us to use as our Homepage portal now? MSN? Yahoo? AOL? F-F-Facebook?? gag me.

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 02:27 PM

And when Google shuts down the circle will be complete. The sooner they are no longer in existence the better.

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 02:28 PM

Soundjudgment, on 03 July 2012 - 02:12 PM, said:

Getting rid of iGoogle is a mistake, IMO. What do they expect us to use as our Homepage portal now? MSN? Yahoo? AOL? F-F-Facebook?? gag me.

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 02:33 PM

Soundjudgment, on 03 July 2012 - 02:12 PM, said:

Getting rid of iGoogle is a mistake, IMO. What do they expect us to use as our Homepage portal now? MSN? Yahoo? AOL? F-F-Facebook?? gag me.

Agreed. I use it daily as my homepage as well. I can understand shutting down a service that doesn't offer functionality, but what do they expect us to use instead?

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 02:38 PM

No more iGoogle? Well, back to My Yahoo as my homepage, I guess.

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 03:00 PM

I discovered PCWorld through iGoogle.
I started by clicking the little web feed titles and reading the stories and now have a hardware shortcut key on my laptop (Acer Launch Manager) that launches PCWorld. Without iGoogle, PCWorld would not be in my life.
But I hardly use iGoogle now...

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 03:11 PM

Shutdown iGoogle it is a big mistake, this is my home page since it was created and I used on a daily basis, would google would like to move my search and all information to msn, yahoo, or what else.. I don't use facebook or google + my life is private and I like to keep it that way I this is what they think the world moves on

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 03:24 PM

DennisDerton, on 03 July 2012 - 01:54 PM, said:

I will miss iGoogle, its my homepage, i use it daily. sad to see it go, could you just not refresh it to more updated content? make it like msn or cnn but better?

Same Here Dennis. It is my homepage also. I love that I can have small snipits of all my favorite tech websites, my email and weather all on one page.

#11 AnthonyCurreri

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 03:26 PM

I have the same opinion as everyone else. Shutting down iGoogle is a big mistake. It's been my homepage since the beginning. Just update it instead of doing away with it.

#12 Cullan66

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 07:10 PM

Terrible move, shutting down iGoogle (though they desperately need to re-name it something better).
The hundreds of millions of people that use laptops and desktops are not using "mobile apps" on them, nor are they interested in ever doing so - Something that has been made abundantly clear already.

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Posted 03 July 2012 - 07:18 PM

Soundjudgment, on 03 July 2012 - 02:12 PM, said:

Getting rid of iGoogle is a mistake, IMO. What do they expect us to use as our Homepage portal now? MSN? Yahoo? AOL? F-F-Facebook?? gag me.

With desktop gadgets and all (in Vista and later), do you really need iGoogle? Heck, I don't even do that, and I use Chrome's new tab page as my homepage.

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#14 MichaelPfeiffer

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 01:06 AM

"Fall spring clean"?
Here in Australia it will be Spring when it is Autumn/Fall where you wrote this story.

Indeed, shutting down the services are sensible, such as Video where YouTube being the more used and better service. Shutting down iGoogle is a terrible mistake as many comments above have stated. We will all get by, the same way iOS users get by without Flash.

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 12:34 PM

I'm in agreement with ll those who are lamenting the upcoming loss of iGoogle as their home page. In my case, it's 3 layers of home pages . . . the 2nd devoted to technology-based rss feeds and newsletters and the 3rd to distance learning rss feeds and newsletters. And as others have asked: just what does Google expect to to use in the place of your current iGoogle home page(s)? Just how much surveying of their customers did they do prior to arriving at this decision? Or did they just talk among themselves?

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 02:57 PM

As a portal, iGoogle was a failure in the marketplace, never garnering more than a pittance of users, and consistently ranking low in user satisfaction compared to Yahoo.

That which fails Google abandons.

While each is entitled to his own opinion, no one is entitled to his own facts.

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 12:59 AM

I love iGoogle - it's my home page and gives me an immediate sit-rep on the things that are important to me. Can anyone recommend a suitable replacement?

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 01:39 PM

Private4k0d, on 03 July 2012 - 02:27 PM, said:

And when Google shuts down the circle will be complete. The sooner they are no longer in existence the better.

Do you remember the internet before google? Searching for what you wanted for was a crapshoot. You had to rely heavily on an extensive lists of bookmarks and dumb luck. Google made the web so much more accessible that even the word "search" has been replaced with "google". Google it. Sure there's some privacy concerns with using their services but there are privacy concerns with using any service you don't run on your own. Overall google's been more of a force for good than evil (so far). The internet as we know it would be very different if google never came along.

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 01:50 PM

gethoht, on 05 July 2012 - 01:39 PM, said:

Private4k0d, on 03 July 2012 - 02:27 PM, said:

And when Google shuts down the circle will be complete. The sooner they are no longer in existence the better.

Do you remember the internet before google? Searching for what you wanted for was a crapshoot.

Yes, I remember very well.

And, I've also watched Google's SERPs become but a pale shadow of what they once were with regards to quality.

To use your words, trying to find the wheat among the chaff in Google's SERPs has become a crap shoot.

This post has been edited by deepsand: 05 July 2012 - 01:51 PM

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 06:57 AM

Its not like any of these services dont have overlap. iGoogle is the most useful one that they are shutting down IMO. I think alot of people still use that.