iGoogle

[Miss Chicken]

A poll to see how many people in Misc use iGoogle (either as their home page or in some other way)

 

[Mallory]

Google yes, iGoogle no.

 

[M'Sharak]

I tried it and ended up deciding that I preferred the nice, clean, uncluttered Google page, and that there were better options for getting some of the feeds and widgets (i.e., LJ, Twitter, Google Gadgets, etc.) I still have an iGoogle page, but I rarely think of using it.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Photo of my iGoogle page

 

[Spot's Meow]

I use iGoogle for my home page and mine looks almost the same as yours, with a different theme. We've got all the same applications.

 

[Small White Car]

Nah. I have widgets for all that stuff.

They're much more versatile than a website can be.

 

[RoJoHen]

TrekBBS is my homepage. Other than Facebook, it's really the only website I visit.

I've never even heard of iGoogle.

If and when Google Wave becomes popular, I will use that as my homepage. I have it right now, but nobody uses it.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Google yes, iGoogle no.

Ditto

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I do have an iGoogle page, but it's not set as my homepage.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I do have an iGoogle page, but it's not set as my homepage.

I have changed the wording of my OP to actually match the poll question as it didn't before.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I used to have iGoogle set up at my Mother's house before she moved and got a new computer; I kind of forgot about it after that. I haven't used it here at all. Regular old Google is my home page.

 

[jamestyler]

I used it for a bit, but I found it irritating and almost every time I'd open a browser I'd switch to regular old Google anyway.

I hate clutter. Which is peculiar if you've ever seen my own site...

 

[trekkiedane]

Till this thread I had not heard about igoogle!

My home page is a page of handy links. I made it myself and change it whenever needed (although I haven't done that since we played Band/Album/Cover...)

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I have it as a homepage on my netbook, so I can just quickly catch up on news and things, but not on my main PC.

 

[Australis]

Voted that I hadn't heard of it, but maybe I have used it once.

Prefer my current home page (Aust) ABC News.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I know it, but I don't use it. For my things I prefer just plain old Google.

 

[Spot's Meow]

I mostly use it so that I can see my Gmail inbox and my customized list of links right away. It also helps having a wikipedia search box and some news links right there.

 

[Jadzia]

I do have an igoogle page, but it takes longer to load all the stuff for it. Sometimes a widget will time out, and the page doesn't respond well until it is through with loading stuff.

So I decided that...
If I want to search, it is quicker and easier for me to have a bookmark to plain old google.
If I want to translate something, it is quicker and easier to have a bookmark to google translate.
If I want to use the dictionary, or see the news, it is quicker and easier to have a bookmark for them too.

I use acronyms in my bookmarks bar, rather than verbose text, which saves a lot of space. Like this, I have 24 fitting along the first row, which is most of the websites/online tools I use.

google is "G"
dictionary is "d"
yahoo mail is "Y"
youtube is "U"
wikipedia is "wP"
etc

 

[Holdfast]

Never knew it existed; can't see myself using it now I do.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I tried it once during my (extremely brief) Google Chrome phase. Now I don't really use it anymore.