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iGoogle To Give MyYahoo a Run For It’s Money Tomorrow

By Robert | May 1, 2007

Google’s personalized home page, Google IG, has been re-badged as iGoogle and will re-launch tomorrow at igoogle.com. A few well know bloggers (Not me) were taken into to Google headquarter and informed of the change.

iGoogle is Google’s is Google’s attempt at the whole Ajax fully customizable home page. Yahoo is the clear leader in this space at the moment with Yahoo’s version (MyYahoo) getting over 50 million unique visitors a month. iGoogle is struggling to keep up with a mere 7 million monthly unique visitors.

Google have never really promoted iGoogle, and it has a number of far superior features to MyYahoo. The most notable of these being that Google’s personalized home page supports widgets (they call them gadgets much like in vista, go figure). Yahoo has stupidly declined to integrate the My Yahoo widget system with their Konfabulator widgets platform. Google biggest draw card will be that they will have the market cornered when it come to the integration of Gmail and all the services that are offered by Google.

Google has placed a link on their main page which just show that they are about to start a big push on the new iGoogle service in an attempt to over throw Yahoo’s strangle hold on the market.

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