Google Personalized Homepage Gets Tabs, Just Like Live.com
Google pulls a trick out of Microsoft’s bag (a logical one, to be fair), and adds tabs to the personalized homepage. Here are the tabs as I see them right now on my IG in Opera:
With no extra tabs:
With tabs:
Adding and naming a new tab:
Dragging items to tabs:
Tabs are very important, since it allows users to install all the gadgets they could ever want without cluttering up the page. Speed and organization are extremely important with the homepage, and the old IG was anything but if you wanted to use all of its features. Now, you can limit each tab to a single page view, which is a hell of a lot easier, and move gadgets you rarely use over to other tabs. Even if it isn’t original, it’s a good thing Google did it.
Credit to: Digg, Something Awful forums, Adam in the Blogoscoped forums and a hat-tip from Atul.
The tabs have gone mostly undocumented by much of the emediat monitoring huge developments. This has been a fantastic change, I can manage the tabs and my info the way *I* want to.
Comment by Roy | September 29, 2006
I love the tabs. Excellent idea. But how do you rearrange them?
Comment by Orygunner | May 6, 2007