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Google makes mobile personal

By Derek Sooman

On January 15, 2006, 6:02 AM

Google's Personalized Home feature will be expanded to include mobile devices in the US. Users of the service who have already customised the Google homepage on their desktop will see the same functionality duplicated on their mobile phone.

It was back in May 2005 that Google began introducing personalisation features. Breaking with its respected philosophy of providing a 'clean' home page, the facility allows a visitor to get a portal-like, at-a-glance update of personalised information such as news, the weather, share quotes and their Gmail inbox if they have an account.
If you have already set up a personalized Google homepage and want the same thing on your phone, visit Google.com, select the 'Personalized Home' link, and then the next time you visit Google.com on your phone, you will see the customized content modules (provided you have a phone with an XHTML-capable web browser.)

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  1. Way to go, Google!!! Google are doing a lot of great things and releasing a lot of useful services recently. I like them very much. I've heard that their stocks have dropped today, after a long time they only increased. Hope it's not something serious.
  2. I guess this step will be soon followed by big portals like Yahoo and MSN. It seems the line dividing PC and mobile phone is becoming thinner, as more features of the PC are storming mobile phone. I'm afraid there is no way to avoid the dark side of the PC to storm mobile phone too though, we can expect worms, viruses, spam, phishing, and so on to start to pop up in our phones too.
  3. More options can't hurt I suppose. This would give cell phone users more choices on how to decorate their interface. But to me, the only reason I use Google is because of the clean website design. If I want to search something, I don't have to wait one whole minute for all the ads, headlines, interactive designs, and a plethora of .gifs to load.Another thing to talk about is the lack of people who will be able to use the customization since not everyone has a phone that has XHTML capabilities. But for the lucky select few that do, Google's customized modules is just another nice sprinkle in their cell phone features.
  4. That's great. Everything in one place. Now what if you are not in the US? I would love this. Google is truly an example to all small beginners.
  5. Nice feature. It looks as though mobile phone users are going to love this one. Its sounds pretty cool, and I think I'm going to try it out.
  6. Nice feature. It looks as though mobile phone users are going to love this one. Its sounds pretty cool, and I think I'm going to try it out.
  7. I think google is really smart to move inot the mobile technology. I hope google will keep what it has done with the search engine, a good product for free.
  8. As i have a new mobile, i sure won't mind having google on it. Way to go google!
  9. Great for people who use mobile devices yet for people like me who use pcs more its just news. Great idea though way to think big google.
  10. Google really comes up with outstanding ideas for its users
  11. Google is the most user friendly, user minded customer caring company i know. I have NEVER had a problem with them! Sometimes you do win being the nice guy...

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