Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'igoogle'

If you mossy your way over to the iGoogle Help Forum today, you may notice a bunch of threads complaining about how Google removed the top tabs from iGoogle and is forcing users to use the left hand navigation tabs....

Posted on November 18, 2009 8:39 AM

Currently, there is a theme named NoBama in the iGoogle Theme directory that shows a picture of two confederate flags with President Obama hanging from a tree. Here is a picture of it: As you can imagine, this is an...

Posted on October 8, 2009 8:05 AM

A Google Web Search Help thread reports that now Google is rolling out the left hand navigation design to iGoogle users in the UK and France. I believe the US had the new, left hand navigation for a while now....

Posted on July 16, 2009 8:55 AM

About six months ago, we reported Google Drops iPhone Optimized iGoogle: Users Revolt. In short, Google dropped the iPhone flavored iGoogle and iGoogle mobile users were really upset and they were upset for a long time. Now, Google announced a...

Posted on June 12, 2009 8:28 AM

For about a week or more now, iGoogle users have been complaining that their feeds in the iGoogle theme are not loading. There are dozens of threads about this issue, but there is one really large one at Google Web...

Posted on June 8, 2009 8:15 AM

A Google Web Search Help thread tells us how to change the iGoogle layout from the new tabs along the left-side of the page to the old style of tabs across the top of the page. To bring back the...

Posted on June 5, 2009 8:34 AM

Last week, we reported for the first time of Google Gadget porn becoming an issue. Well, it is now more widespread then I have ever seen. A new Google AdSense Help thread reports seeing porn in home page of the...

Posted on May 14, 2009 8:33 AM

A Google Web Search Help thread reports that iGoogle is starting to get hit with lots of Google Gadget Porn. Via the thread, I found several Google Gadgets that show pornography including frontal nudity and link to pornographic sites. If...

Posted on May 7, 2009 8:28 AM

There are several complaints in a Google Web Search Help thread that users cannot upload their own iGoogle custom themes. iGoogle allows users to pick a theme from a set of pre-made templates or upload their own theme for their...

Posted on March 31, 2009 7:49 AM

Personalized search and personalized home pages can be great for most users. The only issue is that you need to be signed in, most of the time, to get personalized results from Google. And if you love those personalized results...

Posted on March 23, 2009 7:08 AM

Last night, the Google News iGoogle Gadget was having issues. The gadget did not show any news at all. Here is the first report I saw from Google Web Search Help. Suddenly last night when I went to my home...

Posted on February 20, 2009 8:57 AM

On Monday, we broke the news that Google dropped the iPhone version of iGoogle and it really really really update iPhone users. That being the case, I really thought Google would bring back the iPhone interface. It seems like I...

Posted on January 22, 2009 5:41 AM

A year ago, Google released an optimized version of iGoogle for the iPhone. But recently, Google began redirecting iPhone users away from that optimized version, and to the standard mobile version of iGoogle. The optimized version was located at http://google.com/ig/i...

Posted on January 19, 2009 8:36 AM

Google is making a major promotional push for iGoogle (Google's personalized home page), with the new artist themes section. If you go to the Google home page, you will notice a special logo that looks like the logo on the...

Posted on April 30, 2008 7:52 AM

Google launched at yesterday's Google Personalization Workshop iGoogle. iGoogle is basically the rebranding of the Google Personalized home page and all that goes along with Google and personalization. The best coverage I have seen of the announcement was at Google...

Posted on May 1, 2007 7:23 AM