[OldMacster]

I absolutely agree with EVERYTHING said here. I too will sorely miss iGoogle. The one thing that I've heard no one say here is: Google should keep iGoogle alive for it's users as a gesture of good will for the masses, REGARDLESS of how the numbers fit their bottom line!

Just my opinion... :-)

[TimothyA]

I used iGoogle for a brief while to get ideas for a print newsletter I was doing, but when I stopped doing the newsletter, I stopped using iGoogle. The fact that I don't use GMail, Google Calendar or Google Docs, preferring the Apple equivalents for all of these things, probably had a lot to do with my decision. My verdict: iGoogle doesn't offer a lot that I can't get elsewhere, and apparently a lot of other users agreed.

[oldwiz]

iGoogle has been my homepage for a long time. It has map with traffic, weather, gmail, date/time, calendar, and a few other things. I am at a loss for how to replace it. My Yahoo is what I used before iGoogle, so I guess I'll go back to that. My Yahoo doesn't work as well as iGoogle, but maybe if I spent more time with it I could find a way.

[oldwiz]

rkbaker48, on 05 July 2012 - 03:20 PM, said:

I'm very unhappy with Google's decision to discontinue iGoogle. I believe the real reason is to push users to Chrome. I hope to find a substitute for iGoogle after which I will unplug as much of my digital life from Google as I can.

I use iGoogle even within Chrome. No idea how to make Chrome do what iGoogle does though

[ssherman]

Noooooooooo! What is this beginner going to do??? Just now getting the hang of all this and now my perfect home page will be gone!! Sure I can look for replacements but WHY --it will be time consuming and not a productive use of my time. So, once again, I will look to my wonderful, brilliant, tech peeps to tell me what to do!!!

[iBookinLA]

I suspect that the REAL reason iGoogle is going away is that there are no ads on the page bringing in revenue.

I had never heard of Netvibes until reading this article, but I tried it and was able to come close to replicating my iGoogle page. The toughest gadget to replace was the Google Finance one that showed the current Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P quotes with a small chart. Most of the comparable widgets on Netvibes are broken.

This post has been edited by iBookinLA: 11 July 2012 - 07:03 AM

[johnbrandt]

How much effort and/or resources does it take to maintain iGoogle? Is it now too much for the once-mighty Google? Do we need to have a bake sale?

[johnbrandt]

What, was providing a service to allow viewing anything we wanted all on one page, simply and conveniently, suddenly deemed a bad idea? Is the next step to make Google searches less inclusive? Are the kids at Google suffering some sort of environmental contamination problem that clouds their judgment? Or are they simply not as intelligent as they have been presented?

[johnbrandt]

Note to Apple: Please develop an app that allow us to place lots of little boxes on a home page to see whatever news we desire from multiple sources, intermingled with pix from all over, with weather, traffic, APOD, email, stocks, etc, etc, kind of a personal dashboard and news reader, tightly integrated with Safari and iCloud. Call it iSomethingOrOther. It'll be a big hit, beyond anyone's expectations. Especially Google's.

[isorod]

Ustart.org is a very good replacement I prefer much more than netvibes which just seems to busy for my liking.
Ustart feels more like iGoogle and is my new start page now.

[GibsonGirl99]

As of today, every link at the bottom of Webwag, at least the ones w/Blog as the initial segment of the address redirect to the following site:
http://www.alertmachine.com/
and no bloody idea why, since I am just a lowly end-user, no kind of coder at all. Could this be an indication that Webwag is no longer extant as a viable entity?
Wondering....
Thanks for the great article! Lots of sites now bookmarked for further investigation!