Anyone Use iGoogle?

[Shack]

I did for several widgets and various reasons. I liked it but Google just axed it and possible more axings to come I guess. Cleaning house, so I wonder what is next?

[LMITOUT]

Yes, I noticed the same thing yesterday and I'm not happy about it. Their reasoning is completely out of touch. Do they actually believe that people don't use PC's anymore and only use mobile devices which in turn makes iGoogle outdated? Come on.

For a long time I used Yahoo for my homepage until iGoogle came along but not sure what I'm going to go with now. I don't want "apps" on my home page. I want everything already loaded and laid out in front of me for a quick way to get up to date on news, weather, stock markets, etc.

It will still be around until next November, but now it won't even come up when I click on my "google" shortcut like it used to. Now I just get that bland Google search page and I have to go find the iGoogle link to load it up. Frustrating.

Edit: Looks like I had to re-bookmark iGoogle and now it will load as before...until November 2013 anyway.

[Shack]

Yeah I had the same thing happen. I assume it's Google's way of phasing out by just having it not show up one day and either never caring or having to track down a way to "correct" the mysterious issue.

I bet the powers at hand only look at the trend of development and advancement when it comes to axing or staying aspects. Developers created around iGoogle when it was new and became satisfied with their iGoogle and thus stopped exchanging and creating new apps & modules which can be done else wheres. I used ti more for an online hex_color reference and some developer widgets, but seriously who is going to want to develop something such as iGoogle when you created it as something you use and are satisfied with?

Why not axe Google dashboard or the default reroute "www.google.com/settings/general"? If every day of my life I wanted to change my password and user data, these pages would be great to port into when signing in. Besides this they cluck. Basically they are forcing people into using them more and more when IMO they are really poor pages unless you need them for a specific reason. Just it bites the big one.

All you can hope is that they are coming out with something better. I am not going to land on Google+ as a page. Actually Bing has been making some great movements over their initial start off failure. If nothing is on the horizon soon, I might be actually switching over to Bing as my primary account logged into.