Comments on: Tabs in Google Personalized Home Page

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:18:41 +0000

Worst feature ever. Please for the love of cake, give us a way to remove this POS. This is one of the few positive reviews I have seen of the Home tab abomination while the majority are negative. No warnings at all and this “feature” was forced on users.

If some like it then great, more power to them. But for google to force this crap on the other 90% of users that hate it is just flat out wrong.

Googles strong points up until now has been that they have kept things simple and easy to use. This “feature” goes against those basic principles.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:12:37 +0000

I believe the /ig is just the paresonalized page.

Interesting, if log out of google, then I go to google.ca, and THEN I sign in, I get no tabs either.

I guess it’s just not fully supported yet at .ca!

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:49:35 +0000

I cannot tell for sure, but I am pretty confident that it appeared in .ca for only a day, then disappeared again. On the bright side, the .com and .ca variants both share knowledge of the content of my personal page, the only difference is whether it appears tabbed or flattened out. Thus, I have switched my favourites to point explicitly to .com until I notice .ca working again.
I do have to include /ig on the end as well, or else the .com is automagically substituted with .ca, but that might be my own network’s internal behavior?

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:04:08 +0000

Ahh - too bad for Canada, eh? I’m sure it’s coming soon.

So it WAS in your .ca account, then removed, or no, just in .com?

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:32:08 +0000

Well, after a bit more troubleshooting, I discovered it’s a .COM thing only. i.e.

http://www.google.ca/ig will not show the tabs.
but use http://www.google.com/ig and you WILL see them.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:22:48 +0000

I too noticed this rocking good feature (tabs in google personalized pages), but only for one day. I organized my stuff, then the tabs all disappeared the next day and I have a flat page of content again. What’s up? Was this a feature they didn’t intend to publish yet? Or have I somehow disabled my beloved tabs Did that happen to you too?