Personalized Google Home Page Launched

During the recent Google Factory Tour webcast, after I rushed out to check if Google Earth domain names were available, I started playing with the Google's "IG" - I cannot call it "My Google" - the url is http://www.google.com/ig/ - IG stands for "interface graft" perhaps? What a boring, uninspired, Frankensteinian approach to personalization - slapping a few headlines below the fold of the "normal" Google search box doesn't cut it.

During the webcast Marissa Meyer was literally waiting for the thumbs up from the dev team, as she was presenting it: "The Google personalized interface... which.... is live... as of..... Now!... No... Okay... Now!"

What are my feed choices - BBC, NYT, Slashdot, Wired and Google News? Big f'ing deal. Long way to go before it will compete with *my* "my yahoo" page - which I've had, incidentally, for 7 years.

The Google "interface graft" project reeks of last minutism. Honestly, in my opinion, it isn't even good enough for Labs, but fear not, Marissa promised that a googol of other features for it are coming "real soon now".