iGoogle and Setting Your Google Home
Busy day for Google, the leading search engine and web application provider. First we learn about iGoogle, the renamed Google Personalized HomePage, which will provide a large number of new features hoping to make personalization for you best on Google first.
Some of the announced features include expanded tab functionality with automatic population of Google selected related content based on keyword matching, tools to develop your own Google ‘widgets’ for use by you and your friends, and expanded features for ‘mini-blogs’ and even more.
In a separate article by PC World, Google discussed how making search more ‘personal’ can be done by setting your ‘home’ on Google Maps. Setting your ’starting point’ in Google Maps will allow Google to sort local results to the top when it may seem more targeted towards your search. Other search enhancements were also discussed taking search to the ‘next level’ and beyond simple queries.
In a ‘Google world,’ use of the myriad of Google services (Blogger, search, Webmaster Tools, Picasa, Maps and more) will allow them to better target ads to you when on sites participating in the Google Ad network. This same technology should be able to provide more targeted search results as well, which should always be the primary goal of Google.
With this wide array of new service enhancements and a seemingly endless release of new features and applications, can the other search providers keep up with the frenzy?
Google also briefly made mention of their Google Search History product which was released last week, providing users a complete history on a public webpage of everywhere you go, or alternatively, everything you search for. Depending on your willingness of ‘going public,’ it’s a handy feature to help you find those pages you have visited that you simply cannot remember where it was and your “History” window isn’t helping you remember either. Check out all the services available, at Google.
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