Tuesday, July 26, 2005
new google home page
As you may have read on slashdot, Google has come out with their new personalizeable home page. This just shows how much more google is taking over the internet with their abundance of new features. In my mind, they are aiming to replace Yahoo! as the leading content site on the internet. When Yahoo! came out, it was primarily a search engine, then they pushed their free email, then the content such as news, weather, etc... to their homepage, now look at it.
Well, google has come out with their own version of a content based homepage rather than a search based homepage. I have always loved google because it is just a search engine - you can get to all that other stuff like gmail too - but it's just a great search engine. Now, however, with the ability to add things like slashdot, weather, and of course the latest stilldavid posts through my RSS Feed, what more could any internet-dwelling user need? I was wondering when it would come to this, but I was more curious about how google would do it. I wouldn't doubt if it's in their mission statement to not let their homepage source code span more than 16 lines, so we know they're devoted to keeping the front page simple. I doubt if they'll ever put this amount of content on their front page ever (without a user changing personal settings), but we'll just have to see where they go. And I wonder - I just wonder - if google will EVER release something out of beta?
You can thank the hampsters that spin the wheel behind the .htaccess file for that...