Welcome to iGoogle

To view your iGoogle page, go to www.igoogle.com. (You can also access the page by clicking the iGoogle link on the main Google page.) You must have a Google account to create your iGoogle page; you can then log into your account from any computer to see your iGoogle page wherever you are.

When you first visit iGoogle, it looks like the page shown in Figure 3.1. There’s not a whole lot there yet, just a sampling of content available. (The available choices might be different for you than they are for me; they’re somewhat locally based.) Don’t fret; the whole point of creating a personal iGoogle page is to personalize the content—which you’ll learn how to do next.

FIGURE 3.1. The default iGoogle page—not much content ...

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