{"id":146,"date":"2006-01-07T17:01:55","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T22:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2006\/01\/07\/google-tiptoes-into-the-homepage-game\/"},"modified":"2006-01-07T17:01:55","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T22:01:55","slug":"google-tiptoes-into-the-homepage-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/01\/07\/google-tiptoes-into-the-homepage-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Google tiptoes into the homepage game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kudos to Phil Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped – and a reader who emailed him – for pointing out<\/a> that Dell is shipping PCs with a branded home page powered by Google’s customizable portal<\/a>, an Ajax-driven feature not unlike Microsoft’s live.com or (my personal favourite) netvibes.com. The page has a toolbar at the top that features links to Dell services, as well as boxes of Dell content, but they can be moved around and other things can be added.<\/p>\n

And the Dell page isn’t the only one out there: Someone commenting on the Blogoscoped post pointed out that Current Communications, which provides broadband over power lines, also has a custom page<\/a> powered by Google, which owns a stake in Current<\/a>. The next question, of course, is so what? <\/p>\n

Paul Kedrosky might be right when he says that<\/a> the home page venture could be as significant as the Google software pack<\/a>, but as one poster on Paul’s blog noted, trying to take control of the home page is so<\/i> 1990’s. Does it even matter any more? Perhaps. In any case, it’s an interesting move – and Steve Rubel is right<\/a>, someone should be writing about this (other than me, that is).<\/p>\n

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Kudos to Phil Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped – and a reader who emailed him – for pointing out that Dell is shipping PCs with a branded home page powered by Google’s customizable portal, an Ajax-driven feature not unlike Microsoft’s live.com or (my personal favourite) netvibes.com. The page has a toolbar at the top that features … <\/p>\n

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