Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource, Third Edition

CHAPTER 3 Creating a Personalized Home Page with iGoogle

In This Chapter

• Welcome to iGoogle

• Adding Content to iGoogle

• Adding RSS Feeds

• Customizing Individual Gadgets

• Removing Gadgets

• Rearranging Gadgets on the Page

• Adding New Tabs to iGoogle

• Customizing the Look of iGoogle with Themes

• Your Final iGoogle Page

• Creating Your Own iGoogle Gadgets

• The Bottom Line

If you’ve used Google search at all, you’re undoubtedly familiar and comfortable with the spartan Google home page. But that’s not the only way into the Google search engine. Google also offers a separate start page that you can use as a portal not just to Google, but to the entire World Wide Web.

This page is dubbed iGoogle, and it’s totally customizable.