[PJL500]

Apple should replace it with AppleGoo.

[frogfish]

I was also disappointed to see that igoogle was going to be discontinued . For me it was the perfect staring place when going on the web. Local and national news and weather. Email previews, etc. I installed NetVibes( the free version), and I'll probably learn to use it, but esthetically, igoogle is just easier for me to look at.

Now, I think Apple needs to come up with customizable safari start page, if google can't be convinced to reconsider.

[VeryOldMacGuy]

thomasktech, on 05 July 2012 - 02:37 PM, said:

I'd love to see a modern version of iGoogle on my iPad, with the ability to drag photos and videos into my Google+ circles OR to Gmail, to have various Analytics reports show up all at once, see my latest email conversions, and include additional feeds of my choosing (even from - *gasp* - other services Google doesn't own), and more... Google suffers a lot from this issue - building something, not promoting it, letting it wilt on the vine and never updating it, letting it get old, or making the wrong assumptions in their product roadmaps, only to then shut off the service or capability without even asking their users for suggestions first. It's sad really.

I am devastated. My start page, with exactly what I want on it. I also have it saved as my start page on my iPad. It's simply irreplaceable. Google really needs to rethink this terrible mistake!

[totaji]

I agree with everything said. One of my problems with using one of these smaller sights is them being hacked. Nearly everyone who used Yahoo over the years for email and myYahoo got hacked. Gmail and iGoogle has had a good track record so far, but is Inbox.com a good enough service to prevent emails from getting hacked? Actually, with a little sprucing up, the iCloud page could be a good homepage. I personally don't use the cloud for my email, but if you added a few widgets it might work.

[twocybers]

It makes me sad - and frankly my cynical side says it may be time to learn Bing, before they change my default search engine.

[rbmartiniv]

I really don't know what I will do without iGoogle. I have used iGoogle since it was first launched and realize now that I have taken it for granted. I don't agree with Google's decision to can iGoogle and unless they have something better with which to replace it, I believe Google will end up regretting the decision.

[rbmartiniv]

Let me add, please, that I do not use Apple's Dashboard or Widgets. Don't like them, never did, and never will.

[jrfsmith]

My sentiments entirely. iGoogle has become engrained into my daily computer life. Like you my day is set up on one page and easily manageable. Though it may be dated it works! I'll be sorry to see it go and will have to find another way of arranging my desktop to be just the way I like it.

[trdettmann]

Despite everything they say, Google just doesn't get it. IGoogle is my home, the one place I ALWAYS start anything from. It's more than that since it's packed with stuff I use every day. Maybe Google isn't such a good place to be after all. Time to look for alternatives that integrate together, if that means not going back to Google, then do be it.

[ed60hab]

What a shame! A couple of years after find my perfect start webpage, its creators kill them :-(

[WilliamGove]

I couldn't agree more... I will be exceptionally disappointed when iGoogle is retired. As the author stated, it is definitely a quick glimpse into my brain and what's important to me. It's the first thing I look at when I launch my browser; it's usually the last thing I look at before I go to bed - just to see if any stories of interest were added to any of the news feeds.
Similar to the recent switch to the "new Gmail", I don't like this change either. I have loved everything Google for over 6 years now, but it seems more and more things I love about Google are slowly being washed away and replaced by things I get by with but don't really like.

[JayNunnayobusiness]

Yes. This iGoogle has been my homepage forever. It will be sorely missed.

[dolph0291]

I agree 100%. If there is only one page open in my browser, it's iGoogle. Everything else comes after.

[kl2real]

I'm switching to Feedly, but under protest. It surfaces the same information, but not really in the format I know and am used to. The iOS apps are decent. I would have gone with Flipboard, but they don't have a native app on the Mac, only on iOS, so there is a missing link. I've used iGoogle since 1990-something. It's annoying they are dropping it.