Google makes personalized home page iGoogle

iGoogle is not available any more. About one in five visitors from Google used five years ago, the personalisatiedienst that gadgets on the Google search page could be placed, but according to the search giant, there is no longer a need for the service.

With iGoogle, which in 2005 was taken in use, it was possible to have the Google home page with a so-called iGoogle gadgets. For example, there were gadgets for weather, news, games, rss feeds, and other information that is useful or interesting. iGoogle was set up in april 2008 by twenty percent of Google visitors.

According to Google, is the personalisatiedienst not more useful thanks to modern apps on platforms like Chrome and Android. The end of iGoogle was more than a year ago announced, at the same time with the end of Google Video and Google Mini. Since there is no afscheidspost more appeared from Google: the url of the service, http://google.com/ig, link simply from today through to the homepage of the search giant.

Google has, in recent years many services. In July stopped the company yet with the rss service, Google Reader. Google takes these steps because it focuses on Google+, its own social network that two years ago began.