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'Socially-focused' changes for iGoogle users
Thursday 13th August 2009, by Daniel King
Google has announced changes to its personalised page platform that may interest broadband users who like to collate all of their favourite items in one place.
The search engine group advised in a post for its official blog this week that the iGoogle option that was originally launched in 2005 would now include some more socially-focused facilities.
It was noted that a series of 19 different "gadgets" would be rolled that allow people to share and collaborate on a number of things as well as play games together.
Chess, Scrabble and other memory and skill challenges will be among these offerings and the firm claimed this will give the iGoogle page a more social networking-style feel.
In addition, daily activities can be monitored with a new to-do list gadget and news and information can be collated from sources including NPR, the Huffington Post and the YouTube video-sharing network.
Marissa Mayer, vice-president of search products and user experience for the firm, as well as Rose Yao, iGoogle's product manager, commented in the post that the changes should impress international users as they had already done in Australia - where they were recently tested.
"The Google homepage has always been a place that connects people to information and we're excited to now also be a place that connects people to each other. We hope these social gadgets make iGoogle an even more fun and personal homepage for you," the pair concluded.
An article posted on the Econsultancy website by Rebecca Lieb suggested the way the search company uses its AdWords facility could also be about to change.
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