{"id":6170,"date":"2017-07-22T13:13:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/blog\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2018-02-18T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T14:38:16","slug":"google-changing-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/blog\/google-changing-now","title":{"rendered":"Google is Changing Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google is Changing Now<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If you\u2019re a minimalist, hurry to screenshot the Google start page now! It is about to change forever.<\/p>\n

The snow-white page with the accurate search window, topped by a Doodle is going to change drastically. Google is bringing the mobile approach to desktops. Android phones users as well as those of Google Pixel, have probably already gotten used to customized Google feeds on their home screens. Now, the customization comes to large systems as well.<\/p>\n

Shashi Thakur, vice president of engineering at Google, promised that the start page will soon show highlights of the day, top sport and political events, entertainments, social media feeds and videos. The content will be determined by a user\u2019s interaction with Google plus, as well as information gathered by personal search history, as well as local news from around the user\u2019s location.<\/p>\n

None of this is new, however. Yahoo!, the search engine pioneer, featured the start page customization in the end of 1990s. The MSN page was quick to follow suit. But, users had to add the relevant subjects manually. If I remember it right, while setting the start page view, you had to check the subjects that interested you from a long list of options. Also, MSN could see your country by IP, which more or less rounded up the customization possibilities. This was the status quo, preserved up until recently, when machine learning was introduced.<\/p>\n

Google didn\u2019t miss the trend back then either. Up to 2005, it featured a Google Personalized Homepage. But, in May of this very year, the iGoogle personal web portal was launched. It lived up until November 2013, when the company pulled the plug on it. Until it was closed down, iGoogle had localized versions available in 42 languages, and in over 70 countries. The peak figure of users visiting iGoogle made 20% of all the Web surfers in 2008. At that time, desktops were still the primary devices used for web browsing in the Western world.<\/p>\n

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Google Feed on Android. Source of the image: www.theverge.com<\/p><\/div>\n

The widgets iGoogle used, were:<\/p>\n

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  • \u201cFramed Photo\u201d \u2013 displayed pictures and photos.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cGoogleGram\u201d \u2013 created daily messages.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cSidebar\u201d \u2013 middle school chat rooms<\/li>\n
  • \u201cDaily Me\u201d \u2013 the grandfather of emojis to show user\u2019s current mood and feelings.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cFree Form\u201d \u2013 for posting texts and pictures.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cYouTube Channel\u201d<\/li>\n
  • \u201cPersonal List\u201d \u2013 a list of personal items<\/li>\n
  • \u201cCountdown\u201d \u2013 a countdown timer (can\u2019t see who\u2019d need that one)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cDaily Literary Quote\u201d \u2013 showed literature-related quotes served up by ModeRoom Press.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cMeteo-si\u201d \u2013 displayed the current weather and the weather forecast for selected area(s)<\/li>\n
  • \u201ceBay Gadget\u201d: searched for items on\u00a0eBay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Not that those gadgets or widgets are gone, (most of them are still available as browser extensions) but, they aren\u2019t displayed on the page and have to be manually installed if you want them.<\/p>\n

    The new version of the customized start page is working on machine-learning. Google is processing the big data; which includes your search, frequently visited pages, Facebook friends and accounts and so on. If you\u2019re a Chicago Cubs fan or love cross-stitching, you will get to see the matches recaps, the weather forecast for the nearest Sunday, a list of hand-made shops in your area, or hand-made video-guides all over your starting page.<\/p>\n

    The info will be organized as interactive cards and obviously, the info will be updated every minute, based on your activity online. If the voiced controlled Google Assistant is coming, still remains a secret. The US users are going to get the feed update immediately, with the rest of the world to follow within two weeks. It\u2019s still unknown if the Doodles get to stay. They have become a nice and informative feature of Google as we know it. I\u2019ll be sorry to lose them, if they are removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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