Google Killing Off Mini, Video, and iGoogle 329
New submitter Trashcan Romeo writes "Three years ago, it accounted for 20% of all visits to Google's home page. Two years ago, Lifehacker readers voted it the best start-page service. Today it was announced that iGoogle will be retired — or in the company's parlance, 'spring cleaned' — on November 1, 2013."
Google Video is also getting the axe this summer. It hasn't accepted new videos since 2009, and all of the old ones will be migrated to YouTube. The company is also getting rid of Google Mini, Talk Chatback, and their Symbian search app.
And nothing of value was lost... (Score:2, Interesting)
Really. I pinged a friend who uses iGoogle, and he's just like "Meh".
iGoogle will be missed... maybe (Score:2, Interesting)
Archive Team again? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:What exactly am I suppose to replace it with? (Score:4, Interesting)
Same here. According to their "What's happening to iGoogle?" help page, they say "With modern apps that run on platforms like Chrome and Android, the need for something like iGoogle has eroded over time".
That's certainly not true for me, and I'm both a Chrome and Android user. They're great, but Android is not the desktop, and Chrome is not the only browser on the the only computer I use. iGoogle is good for me because it's cross-platform, highly flexible, and feature full. That's why it's so key to my everyday workflow, and that's why this is a seriously misguided choice on Google's part.
Dammit!!!! (Score:5, Interesting)
iGoogle. I used it and love it. (Score:5, Interesting)
iGoogle. Having all of your RSS feeds, your email feed, calendar, TODO list among a few other things. It is very useful and effective in what it does.
There are several websites that post interesting items, but not enough to visit them every day. The RSS feed makes it were you don't have too. Combining it all with stuff you do use every day (email, calendar, todo list) makes iGoogle extremely useful.
What I find is most people have tools at their finger tips that they have no idea how useful that tool actually is and therefore don't end up using it.
iGoogle is useful, but like Google+ most people have no idea how to actually use it. (at least half-intelligent people are actually figuring out how to use Google+, that just doesn't seem to be the case for iGoogle)
That ignorance is a loss for us all.