iGoogle

Was planning a post on how well Google's many features/apps are integrated (and was planning to say, not particularly well)... so I just typed www.google.com into my browser and instead of the familiar simple interface iGoogle popped up -

and what do we have but a 2007 version of a 1997 portal.


Yes there's (much) more personalisation, yes it's not an html page with frames but a collections of feeds, yes i'm sure it's great in many ways, but it is not the no-frills homepage from you can conduct excellent search that Google is famous for (or perhaps i should say, became famous for)

Seriously - half-close your eyes and you could be looking at a 90s version of Yahoo, Excite, MSN or a million other portals. Actually I just typed in www.msn.com and (without having personalised either), it and iGoogle are almost indistinguishable