Individualised Google Homepage
Bah, I should know that the reason Google leaves things in “beta” for years and years is so they can sneakily add features to them without necessarily telling you. Features you may have been waiting for.
So I’ve been using the Google personalised homepage (I think they call it “individualised”) for a while now… www.google.com/ig. And I only just discovered that sometime between the last time I checked and today, the weather module has been updated to include various international weather locations as well as the US (like, for example, Melbourne AU); and the “roll your own” module now lets you use a RSS feed, not just a Google search. Which is infinitely more useful, at least to me.
So now I’ve pretty much doubled the number of things on my Google homepage. Heh heh. Some of you may have heard my harebrained scheme for producing my own personalised newspaper with a few RSS aggregators, a bit of Google News’s parsing code, and an A1 printer… This homepage seems to be getting closer to that dream (without the A1 printer bit of course).
Screenshot:
You’ll notice, of course, that the weather, while being Australia’s weather, is still in American units. Feh.
November 26th, 2005 at 11:00 am
I’m certain that you can change the units for the temperature in the “edit” section of the weather feed.
November 26th, 2005 at 11:02 am
Looking at it again, I see you’re right =)
December 1st, 2005 at 10:27 pm
A1 printers are cool. We’ve got one at work. Expensive to run though and not likely to be justifiable for you’re on Newspaper
December 29th, 2005 at 4:14 pm
[...] I have made another discovery. Since my discovery of a few weeks ago, I learnt the value in re-trying things that didn’t work then again and again in case Google have changed things. What I re-tried this time was http://www.google.com.au/ig instead of http://www.google.com/ig to see what the differences were. (Last time I tried it, there weren’t any.) This time, lo and behold, not only is the weather in metric units (huzzah!) but also the Google News bit is the Australian news, and when I go to Add Content there’s Australian-specific stuff, like The Chaser, and Crikey. Of course, all my USian stuff is still there. I wonder if this means I can just go to, say, http://www.google.de/ig and put together my personal little mish-mash of stuff… [...]