Chapter 33. Creating a Personalized Home Page with iGoogle

By now, 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.

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 might happen to be.

When you first visit iGoogle, it looks like ...

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