Anyone else iGoogle?

[Glengoyne]

I've used Google as my home page, since even before iGoogle was available. Now that Google announced a few weeks back that they will kill iGoogle late next year, I'm wondering what I'll do to replace it.

I'm assuming that Google has something to do just that, but maybe I'm wrong. I like having my email, local weather, and personalized sports and news feeds right on my home page, along with a Google search block right there on top. I can't believe they'd just let all of us users walk away to setup myYahoo pages...Are there that few of us?

So, am I missing something? Is there a Google product already released or looming to take over as my preferred home page? Or is the answer somewhere else outside of Google?

[mckerney]

Haven't checked it out myself but I've read that Netvibees free basic service is a good alternative.

Another option would be to see if there are Chrome extensions you could use to do something similar, which is probably what Google is hoping people will go to as an alternative.

[QuikSand]

I will follow this thread, as I have been using the same two-tab home page setting for a few years, and have yet to find anything I like better:

Netvibes – Social Media Monitoring, Analytics and Alerts Dashboard
Reference, Facts, News - Free and Family-friendly Resources - Refdesk.com

Netvibes doesn't seem to be the industry leader in anything in particular, but it works well enough as an RSS aggregator and has apps to show things like local weather, my email inboxes, my custom to-do lists and notepads, investment information, and other junk that I like to see reasonably often.

[Matthean]

Originally Posted by Glengoyne

I've used Google as my home page, since even before iGoogle was available. Now that Google announced a few weeks back that they will kill iGoogle late next year, I'm wondering what I'll do to replace it.

I'm assuming that Google has something to do just that, but maybe I'm wrong. I like having my email, local weather, and personalized sports and news feeds right on my home page, along with a Google search block right there on top. I can't believe they'd just let all of us users walk away to setup myYahoo pages...Are there that few of us?

So, am I missing something? Is there a Google product already released or looming to take over as my preferred home page? Or is the answer somewhere else outside of Google?

G+ should have been iGoogle 2.0 and still might be, but it feels like it's not being fully integrated until it's too late.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I'm with you on this. iGoogle isn't perfect, but it's a pretty darn good start.

[sterlingice]

I don't know if it has everything Google does but I've used My Yahoo forever

SI

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

I don't know if it has everything Google does but I've used My Yahoo forever

SI

Yeah , but that's yahoo. That's just one step up from AOL

I'm looking at netvibes, and that looks like it might be a serviceable replacement

[stevew]

I think i use AOL as my home page now, not even sure. Chrome browser is pretty sweet, it gives you quick access to your 8 most visited pages.

[jeff061]

Been using my yahoo since the 90's. Tried iGoogle briefly as a replacement when it first came out, it didn't stack up.

[Jughead Spock]

I just use news.google.com - login there, and you have pretty much everything you mentioned. I imagine that's what the developers are figuring.

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by Jughead Spock

I just use news.google.com - login there, and you have pretty much everything you mentioned. I imagine that's what the developers are figuring.

This is the leading candidate so far.

I might have to dig into Google+ a little as well.

Netvibes seems to have potential for me, but I don't like the way the content is delivered/presented. Perhaps I'm just selecting the wrong widgets as sources. By presented...I click on an entry, and I'm presented with a new page with a one sentence lead in...that I have to again click to take me to yet another page where I can read the rest of the story. Yes I know, two clicks and a presentation of my news that is unfamiliar. A true first world problem.

[CU Tiger]

following along here as well.
iGoogle seemed like the one thing google has done other than a search engine that I really like, yet they are killing it off. Guess it just goes to show Im not the typical target market, shrug.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by Glengoyne

This is the leading candidate so far.

I might have to dig into Google+ a little as well.

Netvibes seems to have potential for me, but I don't like the way the content is delivered/presented. Perhaps I'm just selecting the wrong widgets as sources. By presented...I click on an entry, and I'm presented with a new page with a one sentence lead in...that I have to again click to take me to yet another page where I can read the rest of the story. Yes I know, two clicks and a presentation of my news that is unfamiliar. A true first world problem.

Okay, as a Netvibes partisan... There's an option in each widget/feed to "open directly on site." Check that, and you get what you seem to want - click the headline and get taken right to the source. Should be a default setting, IMO, but it does work well for me with that adjustment.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I've been using MyWay.com as my home page for years. Customizable, no ads. It's a beautiful thing.

[QuikSand]

Another contender that seems worth a look (maybe depending on your personal needs and preferences):

CEOExpress: Business portal for executives created by a busy executive

[Comey]

I just looked up iGoogle. It said it won't be available after November 1, 2013. Are they getting rid of other things before then?

As far as the rest of this stuff goes...as someone who recently got into Snip.It, I'm very interested in this thread. I'm going to look at MyWay and Netvibes.

[fantom1979]

I have used my.yahoo.com for years. Tried igoogle a while ago and couldn't get it the way I wanted it. my.yahoo and fantasy sports are just about the only things I use Yahoo for.

[AgustusM]

I tried all of these before stumbling on this

Myfav.es - Start Here

haven't looked back since

also Twitter has a lot to do with this as well, as the site I go to to see what is happening in the world.

[bryce]

I just stumbled upon ighome.com as a replacement to igoogle, FYI. Apparently it was set up to mimic igoogle, and you can tell. Took me about 15 minutes to replicate igoogle. Only downside is an ad at the bottom of the screen so it's a big slower than igoogle. But all in all I'm pleased I found an alternative.

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by bryce

I just stumbled upon ighome.com as a replacement to igoogle, FYI. Apparently it was set up to mimic igoogle, and you can tell. Took me about 15 minutes to replicate igoogle. Only downside is an ad at the bottom of the screen so it's a big slower than igoogle. But all in all I'm pleased I found an alternative.

This is the best fit to date! Thanks Bryce.

I already feel at home with ighome.

[Bobble]

So it's getting down to the wire and I haven't chosen igoogle's successor for myself. Who is the consensus best replacement?

[Bobble]

Answer me!!!



I've gone through ighome.com and set up everything like I had it in igoogle. That seems a very good option if you just want to continue on with essentially the same old igoogle clone.

I've also played around with netvibes somewhat. Seems like it might be more ... um, advanced?... kind of dashboard. By that I mean that it seems like netvibes might continuously improve while ighome would stay stagnant.

Anyway, my $.02 for anyone else lamenting igoogle's demise.

[Scarecrow]

Originally Posted by Bobble

So it's getting down to the wire and I haven't chosen igoogle's successor for myself. Who is the consensus best replacement?

I switched to news.google.com. It's not customizable, but it gets me what I got from iGoogle.

[digamma]

ighome seems to get me what i need, at least for the immediate future.

[jeff061]

Well, after previewing the new MyYahoo, I'm not sure I'd recommend that anymore.