Google's New Personalized Homepage

jgaynor writes "Citing user requests to coalesce its disparate services, Google today released its new personalized homepage service. It allows you to arrange your Gmail, Google News, Google Maps driving directions, weather and a few select news services (including Slashdot) on a single page. Future plans include Universal RSS support. Clearly a shot at existing services like My Yahoo."

It was just about time

[puiahappy]

I was waiting for this moment for a lot of time. Google have so many features, but it was missing the page that put them all together. Have a directory [dmoz.com], stock market feeds, dedicate search for Linux [google.com], email [gmail.com], free blog [blogger.com] and lots more ... Oh yeah and don`t forget about google adsense [google.com] and adwords [google.com]

Re:It was just about time

[Omnieiunium]

I have to agree. I would love to be able access all that information on my homepage. I visit Slashdot, GMail, and Google about 100000 times a day so it would be nice with them all in one little place. I hail the Google-Overlords.

Seen this yet?

[DrunkenTerror]

EPIC 2014 [robinsloan.com], the Evolving Personalized Information Construct.

I just wish they'd finally use...

[Nailer]

...the nice user interface with proper tabs [google.com] for Firefox clients.

Seriously, it's so much nicer than having the page reload when you click another tab. Why doesn't the FF start page use this?

One page to rule them all...

[null etc.]

One page to bind them.

Seriously, I guess Google just got a new lease on life, considering it's supposed to die in 5 years, according to Microsoft.

Re:One page to rule them all...

[diegocgteleline.es]

Well, Microsoft at least it already has a aquivalent with a javascript RSS reader and everything, so Microsoft seems to be "ahead" in this case: http://www.start.com/1/ [start.com]

Re:One page to rule them all...

[diegocgteleline.es]

Oh and http://www.start.com/2/default.aspx [start.com] for the version 2, etc

Re:One page to rule them all...

[mesach]

Actually I thought it should read

and in the whitespace bind them.

Re:One page to rule them all...

[emilymildew]

Do ANY of these "portal" sites offer something that we can't all whip up in a few minutes with HTML/CSS?

I'm very glad you can do better; some people would prefer to spend their time using the information rather than getting things set up to see it. That isn't meant to be mean.

There it is!

[jackcarter]

The start of the cluttered Yahoo-like interface. the fact that Google is clean and white is the reason most people flocked to it at first. At least the customization means that I can make it what I want.

Re:There it is!

[Stibidor]

I believe the "cluttered Yahoo-like interface" is somewhat popular.

Google is still "clean and white" if you leave the "/ig" off the end of the URL.

And yes, you can make it what you want. :)

Re:There it is!

[smittyoneeach]

Hopefully, they take it the rest of the way and incorpoate groups-beta.
Google could go the full Yahoo! monty, and have an interface that looks like "an Australian's nightmare", but I'd be very surprised.
They seem to grasp the strategic non-value of such a turdberg.

Formatted

[Jaiwithani]

Googleweiss, Googleweiss,
Every morning you greet me,
Small and white,
clean and bright,
Works in Gecko and IE.

Don't be complex
Just search and index,
Don't be evil forever,
Googleweiss, Googleweiss,
Bless my homepage forever.

Re:There it is!

[bob whoops]

From the FAQ:

6. Why did you mess up the clean, crisp Google homepage?

We didn't. If you want to keep using the original Google homepage, you can. In fact, we expect that many users will. The personalized homepage is for those users who want to see more of the information that matters to them in the same place. You can always switch back and forth between your personalized homepage and the original Google homepage by clicking "Classic Home" or "Personalized Home."

Re:There it is!

[Michalson]

Tracking on the normal search page is done a little differently (though perhaps they just have some server side code that returns different methods based on browser). As you know, account or no account, all Google pages attempt to implant a "never expires" cookie that has a unique ID if a unique ID is not already found on your system. The ID is used to allow Google to associate all requests with you (and if you have an account, multiple computers can be tied to a single person/ID).

For the regular search, rather then using a redirect script, it seems to use onmousedown javascript (in this way the link you click is a "direct" link to the URL). The mousedown script causes your webbrowser to load a hidden image (which is really a tracking image, the kind used by spammers in their email to report back to them). If you examine the javascript it sends the link you clicked, your unique ID, the position on the page the link was ("1" for the first link and so on) and two type parameters (ct="res" and sa="T") encoded as the URL for the fake image.

Re:There it is!

[Michalson]

Very interesting. I was right, Google seems to have have multiple formats for what visually looks like the same result page. The underlying format determines if and how Google tracks your clicks. One factor that may play a part is the date - the unique ID in the cookie includes a checksummed date of when the ID was created. Some Google features (like the book excerpts) have already been shown to check this date and give different results based on whether your cookie appears to be an existing cookie, or if it appears that you just created it a short time ago. It would take some time to verify, but I would hypothize Google only starts including link tracking code once the cookie is old enough to mark you as a legitimate or otherwise worthwhile user.

Re:There it is!

[tylernt]

Isn't this the way that Google improves search results and updates PageRank etc? By tracking which links get clicked?

If Google didn't track anything, their search algorythms would probably be a lot less efficient because they wouldn't be able to tell which of the search results were the ones that users found relevent.

Re:There it is!

[hazem]

It's not the clutter per se that bothers me at Yahoo. It's all the friggin flashing, blinking, and pop-up ads.

As for google... if they want to put all the stuff I like on one page, more power to them. Just don't clutter it with flashing, blinking, epileptic-fit-inducing ads.

Re:There it is!

[sik0fewl]

Are you kidding?? I can't wait until this page [seizurerobots.com] gets an RSS feed!

Useless trivia: that page is actually the #1 hit (on Google, of course) for "seizure"

One improvement to decrease clutter

[Chuck Chunder]

Would be to have a "dismiss" link for the Word of the day and Quote of the day entries so they can be made to go away but automatically reappear again tomorrow.

I quite like them, but after I've absorbed them I don't need to have them cluttering up the page for the rest of the day.

Re:One improvement to decrease clutter

[Blakey Rat]

Why suggest it here? Put it in as feedback to Google. They act on feedback, you know.

Re:There it is!

[Monkeman]

I like it, specifically because it's "underwhelming" and "far behind" the atrocity that is My Yahoo. It runs off of a cookie, you don't need an account and it's still nice and minimalistic. Also: am I the only one who spent like five minutes putting each module on the page and dragging them around?

Re:There it is!

[Sandor at the Zoo]

...far behind My Yahoo

I agree. On my Yahoo page I have stock graphs (not just the quotes that Google gives you), mortgage rates, and news feeds hand-chosen from the wide variety that yahoo has listed.

I might be able to fake up some of these with tailored google searches, but why should I have to?

Also, I can't order the stock quotes the way I want; they're ordered the way google wants. :-(

I do like the layout dragging. Very nice.

Hopefully google will add more stuff to make the homepage more flexible

greeeeeeeaaaat

[dmf415]

Would be even nicer if i can integrate my yahoo mail too! ;-)

Re:greeeeeeeaaaat

[brogdon]

" Would be even nicer if i can integrate my yahoo mail too! ;-)"

That's easy. Just create a Gmail account [gmail.com], and set your Yahoo mail to automatically forward everything [yahoo.com] there.

I like helping people.

Re:greeeeeeeaaaat

[shird]

Thatd be well and good if Yahoo didn't rape this feature out of its services (.com addresses). its gone. thanks guys. If you had told me this was a possiblity when I signed up you can be sure I never would have.

You WILL be able to (supposedly)

[jgaynor]

I listened to a few hours of the stockholder briefing. Some guy in the audience actually had the gaul to ask if he could use his Yahoo Mail with this new service. Bryn deferred to the PR chick who announced this - SHE SAID YES. As in 'yes we're in talks with other vendors to get 'hooks' to display their mail services'.

Bottom line? Google's got balls. They repeatedly stressed that they dont track user statistics by services crossover or hits per person, but by user utility. The fact that they would allow and even per-emptively OFFER access to offsite mail shows that they're not just pulling our legs about that mantra . . .

Re:greeeeeeeaaaat

[EnronHaliburton2004]

Because Gmail won't let me do basic things, like put my own, real address in the "From:" line. They allow "Reply-to:", but it looks so 90s, and Reply-To doesn't work in all mailers.

Re:greeeeeeeaaaat

[siriuskase]

Because Gmail won't let me do basic things, like put my own, real address in the "From:" line. They allow "Reply-to:", but it looks so 90s, and Reply-To doesn't work in all mailers.

You got to think asynchrously. Read your mail with GMail, but use a mail program on your own machine to send mail. Then you can use any address you want, preferably one you can forward to Gmail.

This gives you the bottomless archive for your messages that you can assess anywhere in the world, plus the ability to compose mess

Re:greeeeeeeaaaat

[pediddle]

It may look so 90s, but Reply-To only doesn't work in mailers from the 80s!

(Feel free to correct me by naming one in which it doesn't work.)

Re:greeeeeeeaaaat

[EnronHaliburton2004]

Well, since I use Yahoo for my DSL (currently $27/month, soon to be $20/month), I also get 2GB.

And I never, ever come close to that amount... I don't know what I would do with it. Maybe I could upload 15 years worth of email and use Gmail's nice search feature.

Re:greeeeeeeaaaat

[anagama]

Weren't you told? This is for backups after mcrypting them.

More commentary...

[RichM]

More coverage at Google Blogoscoped. [outer-court.com]
I submitted this story about 30 mins ago but it looks like someone beat me to it.

Re:More commentary...

[apoc.famine]

Um, this is slashdot. I'm willing to put down $20 that your story will *also* get accepted. I mean, this is a google story, after all, and we always need more google...

Uses Gmail Accounts

[RaffiRai]

Awesome. You don't need to sign up for another account if use Gmail. Good stuff.

Re:Uses Gmail Accounts

[RichM]

You never needed to anyway, the Google Accounts sign-in is a central login which gives you access to GMail, Groups, Video and everything else.

Re:Uses Gmail Accounts

[Jussi K. Kojootti]

You can get anywhere with that! Maybe they should call it Google Passport!

Notice the differences though

[Stevyn]

between google and yahoo. Google's is clean and compact while yahoo's is all over the place. People want simplicity and when so much information is displayed at once like on lots of portals, it's difficult to find anything.

Re:Notice the differences though

[Timesprout]

You obviously have not looked at yahoo for a while. Google is cleaner but displays less and their colour scheme chould do with some work. The edit option displays very poorly against a similar shade background.

Re:Notice the differences though

[smittyoneeach]

But it looks great in lynx, when I'm too lazy to start an X server, so I got that goin' for me...

Re:Notice the differences though

[pipingguy]

The "!" in Yahoo keeps me from considering it as a serious organization, nevermind the backwoods, redneck exclamation connotations it tends to evoke (not to mention the multiple cookies set).

I'm much more comfortable with a made-up word like "Google".

WTF

[The Bungi]

The nice thing about this is that it talks to GMail via something else to create the preview so it gets around proxy blocks.

I still can't actually read messages, but I can see if I have something that requires immediate attention instead of waiting until I get home.

Anyone else note the GoogleDot effect?

[MrAnnoyanceToYou]

One of like nine options total is to see slashdot's news items. Strange? Not really. Suspicious? Yeah, kinda. I mean, why would Slashdot be picked among all the tech news sites out there....?

Re:Anyone else note the GoogleDot effect?

[EnronHaliburton2004]

Because they're trying to appeal to geeks who want to try cutting edge technology first?

Maybe it's a reciprocal agreement. If Slashdot uses a Google News Story several times a day, Google will link to Slashdot?

Re:Anyone else note the GoogleDot effect?

[kavau]

Despite all conspiracy theories, I think the reason is simply that the programmers who implemented the customized homepage are avid Slashdot readers.

Re:Anyone else note the GoogleDot effect?

[kristopher]

It's simple really. CowboyNeal is having an affair with google. That has to be it. Everything is coming together now. I wonder if he'll leak out the video tape Paris Hilton style. That would be awesome. I so want to be CowboyNeal, unless of course he ends up with some kind of google std.

.. Who am I kidding, you know I'd still hit it.

Re:Anyone else note the GoogleDot effect?

[squidfood]

One of like nine options total is to see slashdot's news items.

But for some reason it's lagged, this story isn't showing up there yet. Oh wait, they must be afraid of an infinite loop infinite loop infinite loop...

Didn't you know?

[Colin Smith]

Slashdot is world famous. A roving random distributed denial of service attack before which web, network and systems administrators alike quake and have terrible nightmares about.

How many other tech news sites can claim that?

Re:Anyone else note the GoogleDot effect?

[Tribbin]

1. Because it matters.
2. Because that is the first thing the programmers wanted in it.
3. Save slashdot a whole lot of (CTRL+R) page requests.
4. Because we are the first to know about this customized page, for sure.

Re:Anyone else note the GoogleDot effect?

[MrNonchalant]

My friends have been asking me for something that could add Gmail and news headlines to the Google homepage. I saw a Slashdot post requesting the same thing, and someone wrote back: if you want that feature, do it yourself and whip up some code or scrape the data. Of course, why would my friends spend any time hacking this together when they could just get me to do it for them? - Brian Singerman, Software engineer on the Google Blog [blogspot.com] posting about the new portal.

Somehow I think this explains it.

Just tried it.

[rokzy]

very good, especially the drag and drop rearrangement ability. but I doubt I'll be using it. my gmail is just for the very rare untrusted sign up, safari and firefox support google search from the search bar, and safari has far better RSS feed management than this.

It has slashdot

[endx7]

Even has slashdot as one of the things you can put on it.

At least they didn't put this on the main front page. Stuff like this tends to be cluttered, and I dislike clutter.

Custom defaults

[LiquidCoooled]

I really like this look and feel.

However, I would personally like a standard default available so that I don't have a different looking homepage just after clearing internet cache/cookies etc.

Global Domination

[OiITMan]

Well personally I'm happy that Google keeps trying harder and harder to become the all-encompasing mega corp that we all need to place our faith in... An I for one welcome... eh.

Better everyday

[Supp0rtLinux]

Aw Google... they just keep adding good stuff...

Whoa, custom

[ecliptik]

I love how you can customize it, it can even pull stories from slashdot (although it lags a bit, for instance this story hasn't shown up yet).

If you don't like how they're arranged, just click and drag the boxes around, really truely awesome use of DHTML.

My one gripe is with the gmail integration, when you open a message it looks a bit kludgy, and from there if you try and the inbox link at the top you get a "grrr! you have a popup blocker" message. Note that I'm using Firefox here, and from how FF friendly they are you think this wouldn't be an issue, oh well, it still rocks.

Re:Whoa, custom

[bob whoops]

(although it lags a bit, for instance this story hasn't shown up yet).

Blame Slashdot. The RSS hasn't updated yet.

Strange...

[rainman_bc]

I know a lot of users who switched to Google for its simplicity.

Remember Excite, Hotbot, Lycos, Infoseek, and Altavista all used to look like Yahoo.

Then Google started to kick ass and everyone moved away from that format to a minimalistic approach.

No google is trying to become Yahoo? I'm going dizzy just thinking about it...

Search for search; home page for news

[jfengel]

I use My Yahoo as my home page. It gives me the news, weather, and other miscellaneous stuff. I check it a few dozen times a day, whenever I want to connect with what's going on.

I use Google to search.

At this point, a "Personalized Google" home page wouldn't be a reaplcement for Google, and in fact they shouldn't take up half the front page with a search bar. It would be a replacement for My Yahoo. When I want to search, I'll search. When I want to know what's going on, I'll hit my personal page.

What

One thing left out.

[DarkProphet]

Pretty nice. The clean drag 'n drop and edit stuff is good. One thing I would have liked to have seen is a 'generic' RSS box instead of one specifically for /.

Maybe they'll get around to that.

Gmail opened up??

[mastropiero]

I just browsed through these pages, and saw the registration link for gmail. WTF??

Re:Gmail opened up??

[amembleton]

No. That registration link is for Google services, not gMail. If you click on the link it requires you to enter a valid email address, and they don't seem to offer you one. However it is possible that they will email you a link to set up a gMail account.

Pretty weak so far

[prostoalex]

The interface is nice and clean, but it's still not My Yahoo!

- No outside RSS feeds, so can't add anything beyond pre-selected sources
- No user-selected color coding, so semantically the boxes are barely distinguishable
- Small things, like inability to select a subset of Google news, not just top stories

All fixable, and it's obviously a beta, but it's surprisingly a really raw beta.

Re:Pretty weak so far

[Bullet-Dodger]

- Doesn't have a big flash-ad at the top.

Re:Pretty weak so far

[awful]

Not only that - but I can't see my weather (Melbourne, Australia) nor localise my news. I've mentioned it to them, and no doubt it will appear in time, but it would be nice if for once when Google creates a new service they think about internationalisation from the git go.

Initial thoughts

[Deag]

I don't know, I just tried it there and it's nice, but I don't like how it looks.

Ok, it is the initial version, but compared to other stuff from Google like Gmail, it doesn't seem very polished. Be nice if you could minimize each of the portlets also.

Re:Initial thoughts

[conteXXt]

agreed.

but remember googlenews was non-customizable for a long time too.

I would imagine that this too will evolve in a good way.

When will Google stop?

[bogaboga]

This is yet another "innovation" from Google, but when will it stop? This is a plea to Google: "Bring on more features but keep Firefox users close at heart."

I wish them well after all Google's moto is "Do no Evil!"

OMG!!

[lortho]

You guys... seriously... it's Google... they released a product... that's non-beta... seriously, you guys, come quick!!!

OT: Contraction translation

[Anonymous Coward]

First sentence:

Citing user requests to coalesce it is disparate services, Google today released it is new personalized homepage service.

Remember, "It's 'its', not 'it's'."

Or, just read Bob the Angry Flower's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots [angryflower.com] (his words, not mine!). I mean, sheeh, twice in the first sentence? You idiot. (My words, not his!)

DRAG AND DROP!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

this is one of the most amazing web interface's i've ever seen. google has done some remarkable work with gmail and maps.google.com and this is even better.

it would be nice if someone could make a toolkit for php or whatever to make web interfaces that are as rich as regular app interfaces. Qt for the web!!

The Google service I'd like to see is...

[vocaro]

... http://grammar.google.com/ [google.com]

coalesce it's disparate services -->
coalesce its disparate services

released it's new personalized homepage service -->
released its new personalized homepage service

The UK version is broken

[Pete (big-pete)]

If you go to http://www.google.co.uk/ig/customize [google.co.uk] then try to set and save your settings, you'll find that it's pretty broken...

It seems to send the page into a loop...in IE you will just receive continuous warnings that you are being redirected to an nonsecure page.

-- Pete.

Re:The UK version is broken

[Artega VH]

Same for the .au version... I think it might be everyone except the plain .com version

Re:The UK version is broken

[Yakman]

Had the same problem with the search history thing a few weeks back, wouldn't work anywhere but on .com but I automatically get redirected to .com.au most of the time. Sent them the feedback at the time, don't know if they fixed it.

Re:The UK version is broken

[Pete (big-pete)]

Okay - replying to myself...but now I've just tried the .com version again, and I'm getitng the same issue. Maybe this is just me. Doh. Also if I try and sign-in, the page just times out.

And replying to myself yet again, I can now say it's certainly broken, both the .co.uk site and the .com site. It worked the first time I went to the pages, but now it's all broken. If you have had it working, purge your cookies and see just how broken it is now.

Maybe we slashdotted google? ;)

-- Pete.

MyFrame

[Doc Ruby]

I wish that Google homepage would let me include arbitrary HTML. Especially an <IFRAME> so I could include any content from any webserver in the page, including my own. Slashdot doesn't even allow that. But it really is the most "P2P" type customization, where the content is provided by the user, rather than the provider of the page.

Saved searches from a long time ago resurface.

[H01M35]

The first thing that jumped out at me once I personalized my googlepage was that /lots/ of saved searches from a long time ago showed up in a drop down from the search bar.

Hopefully for the rest of you your googlepage doesn't fall into the wrong hands. If people were to find out what you had been searching for, how would they feel? How would you feel?

Heck, I felt a bit violated and it was only /me/ that saw them.

Re:Saved searches from a long time ago resurface.

[42forty-two42]

This isn't google's doing. Clear your form history. I opted-into the my search history system, even, and when I clear my form history there were no saved searches in a drop-down.

grrrr

[judd]

When will Google strip annoying extraneous apostrophes [angryflower.com]?

Its != it's

Thank you.

Just like Yahoo, except...

[FuzzyFox]

When is the Google Instant Messenger coming out?

Re:Just like Yahoo, except...

[kertong]

http://www.hello.com/ [hello.com]

Redirection loop

[kbahey]

Well, I clicked on the link in the article, and was able to setup a page and customize it.

I then visited Google Canada's home page, and added /ig to it and tried to do the same, and ran into a redirection loop (seems google.ca tried to redirect to google.com, which tries to redirect to google.ca, ad infinitum...

Now neither /ig pages work at all. I had to clear all the cookies to get back to one page that works.

Hey Google guys! I know that some of you are reading this. Please fix it.

Tell them yourself?

[Shazow]

Or you can just tell them yourself:

http://www.google.com/support/fusionph/bin/request .py [google.com]

- shazow

more content, more features, less "flair"

[hellfire]

I like the interface as it stands now, very simple and easy to use. I'd like more content, but that can be added easily. My Yahoo jazzed up their interface and ruined some aspects but added no new content, which now bug the hell out of me.

Now all they need are TV listings, along with the ability to customize the listing, and customize the theaters I see, and I'm set.

Too bad...

[Trailer Trash]

...it'll be gone in 5 years. Oh well, I'm sure MSN will have something to replace it.

IG?

[soupdevil]

What's the ig for? iGoogle? Please tell me no.

I find it really neat...

[tommertron]

That they included Slashdot in the news services. Right up there with the New York Times and Wired News. All stuff that I read, and pretty cool that Google reads them too!

This is my new home page. No, I'm serious.

[MsGeek]

I am positively loving this. I've previously used my Yahoo account because it has everything I need when I'm traveling, or when I'm using the computers at school. I can also set it up with a two-column format that is friendly for my Original Recipe iBook. Yes I know you can also do that in Yahoo but it's just not as elegant.

I could use a link to Google Maps, My Google Groups and some sort of bookmark storage scheme, but this will do for now.

Oh yeah, it loads really, really quickly too.

Call me a Google fangirl, but this rocks.

why slashdot is so special to google

[desiderius7]

As I scanned through the critical discussion of this new compilation of services by Google, I realized how calculated their marketing efforts are. It now seems quite probable that there are any number of Google employees currently tracking this thread on Slashdot. A free analysis by one of the most vocal net cultures of geeks (and n00bs)!

GoogleScript

[etheriel]

We're always going to dissatisfied with some aspect of these kind of personalized homepages - because ultimately our options a limited to their imagination. So, what if google created some kind of rss/html/etc. aware scripting language that let us *really* personalize our homepage? (ok, maybe a reduced version of some existing scripting language would be better.)

I'd like to open my google-homepage and see if anyone has replied to my comments on slashdot/some random forum/etc; I'd also like to use a small chunk of my gmail storage to synchronize my bookmarks to, then display a bookmarks browser on my google-homepage. So why can't i hack these things together? Half the reason I'm not switching back to ie when it finally gets tabbed browsing (the feature that originally attracted me to firefox), is that i'd miss all my old plugins. if google could pull of some kind of system like i've just described, i'm sure a lot of their use base will be sticking with them for a while.

TV show module

[hahn]

You know what would be a KILLER idea? If you could list what TV shows or TYPES of TV shows your interested in, and then it lists when they're showing in the next week with a countdown of how long before the show begins (kinda like when bidding is going to end E-Bay style) and whether it's a new episode or re-run. If you want to browse what's coming up in the next 3 hours, it would list shows according to the CURRENT time and based on what you've been interested in before or based on your ratings of a show (Tivo thumbs up/down style).

It would be MUCH better than the cluttered and space wasting TV Guide-style TV listing that Yahoo currently uses. The Yahoo one is also frustrating in that it's not smart about the time listing it shows. It can be 10 am and it will still show you the 8-11 pm prime time block. Even on weekends.

Pretty fast update

[rathehun]

Had a message in my inbox.

Checked it out in T-Bird.

Go to FF. Hit Reload. Message gone.

Bloody fast.

R.

Takes A Long Time for /. Stories to Show Up

[ras_b]

I love this new customize google since i use a lot of the features separately, but it takes a long time for /. stories to be updated. As of this posting (8:40 am eastern) the latest /. headline still hasn't shown up (BSA Reacts to 'New' BitTorrent Posted by CowboyNeal on Fri May 20, 07:54 AM) that's almost an hour lag. since most /.ers refresh slash every 5 minutes, that's no good.

Re:W00t!!!

[conteXXt]

ahem!

gLinux!

Please!?!?!?

Re:UGLY - CLUTTERED - DISAPPOINTING

[-kertrats-]

As opposed to what? Yahoo [yahoo.com]?

Re:UGLY - CLUTTERED - DISAPPOINTING

[-kertrats-]

Did you even click my link? Try again.

Re:UGLY - CLUTTERED - DISAPPOINTING

[supersling]

No, I hadn't. I thought that it was just a link to regular Yahoo. Yahoo Search doesn't look have bad, I'll have to give it a try. Do you think that there was any Google influence in their design?

Re:just like ballmer said

[smittyoneeach]

No, MSN didn't immediately collapse.
Nor is Google's collapse imminent, trolltard.

Re:Doesn't work for google.co.uk

[JaF893]

Even if I change the redirection limit in Firefox to 99999 it still doesn't work.