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Here it is: http://www.google.com/ig

Something I just discovered. Seems awfully like what I did try out with Yahoo a long time ago (5 years+, so some of these might not apply anymore).

I didn’t like what Yahoo! had. It was not easy to customize. I had to go through many page loads to make some changes, and took me at least half an hour to make it what I wanted it to be like.

Now, with Google’s personalized home, you can change things by clicking the “Add Content” button on the top left corner, add new content, and organize them by dragging them around. You can change the options in the same page by clicking edit, make your changes, then go out of edit mode. No/minimal loading, and very easy and fast. And, I think it looks cleaner than Yahoo’s page.

Well, I think it is worth a try, and I’ll be using it for a while.

Macworld: News: Google intros Q&A service

“…Google Q&A is strong in areas such as geography, information about famous people and physical facts, such as the size of planets…”

Well, seems pretty cool, since it adds to the features like define in Google search. I would like to see it mature and make use of it.

I guess Google is just trying to match the wikipedia search ability of Yahoo search.

Well, many things are still not displayed. Like I tried “How old is Steve Jobs” and also for Bill Gates, but both had no results shown. I’d wait for the feature to grow over time, then come back and use it as it gets better.

EDIT: well, just found this on the Google Weblog.

Ah hah! My predictions are correct! GMail is becoming “bottomless”! Well, that’s good news for everyone.

Oh, and Google Maps now has satellite imagery. It’s pretty cool. Yeah, nothing new, but when it is something from everyone’s favorite brand name, all their beta products are something to rave about. Right? Yup.