Suggestion For Google Customized Homepage
December 11th, 2006 by Michael Gray in Google, ToolsIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
I’m testing using a Google personalized homepage on a second laptop with a 15.4″ screen on 1280 resolution. To give me more screen real estate and make it more like my personal dashboard how about moving the search box up to the left in the corner. It would only give me a few lines but it would really help. Now if you wanted to go all crazy and give the user total control let me kill the main search box masthead, leaving just the single line in the upper right. Then create a small search widget that I can put anywhere I want on the page, man that would totally kick ass … yes I am completely serious. Since I’m totally talkin’ crazy, build a widget for google analytics I can add in, and maybe one for Google Adwords and Google Adsense too.
I’ve only been using it a few hours and really linking it. If I wasn’t worried about all that data being mashed together and used against me, I might even use it for my main stuff … sigh
I am serious about those suggestions though, not just being a pain in the ass …
Sphere It
December 11th, 2006 at 2:06 am
I’ll pass the suggestions on.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:34 am
Use Netvibes, it rocks and does what you describe, plus it’s not owned by the big G. I’ve tried a number of start pages - netvibes wins for me.
December 11th, 2006 at 9:18 am
I’ve tried a few and liked some of them my actual fear is becoming attached or really really used to something that will go away. Google ain’t going away.
December 11th, 2006 at 10:40 am
“I’ve only been using it a few hours and really linking it.”
Now there’s a Freudian slip…
December 11th, 2006 at 11:38 am
Analytics are available by subscribing to:
http://r2unit.com/gmodule/analytics.xml&synd=ig
The only PITA part of it is that it requires a secure session, and many of the other widgets don’t play friendly with https://, so you’ll get a popup from the browser asking if you want to show items from http:// and https://
- Aaron
December 11th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
The addition of tabs a few months back made a big difference for me, prior to that the real estate was too limited - especially above the fold. I agree that allowing users more options to either remove or move the search box would be greatly appreciated.
Along the same lines, I would love to see the ability to export all your widgets/feeds to facilitate sharing. Right now I have to copy locations for each feed, widget, etc. individually. Would be simple except I run 7 tabs with about 60 feeds and widgets.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Resourse like Google Suggest
http://internet.somee.com/google/suggest.aspx