IGoogle

iGoogle
Type of site
Web Gadgets
DissolvedNovember 1, 2013; 10 years ago (2013-11-01)
OwnerGoogle
URLArchived official website at the Wayback Machine (archived October 31, 2013)
CommercialYes
LaunchedMay 19, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-05-19)[1]
Current statusDiscontinued

iGoogle (formerly Google Personalized Homepage) was a customizable Ajax-based start page or personal web portal launched by Google in May 2005. It was discontinued on November 1, 2013,[2] because the company believed the need for it had eroded over time.[3][4]

As of October 17, 2007, Google had made the service available in many localized versions in 42 languages, and in over 70 country domain-names.[5] In February 2007, 7.1 million people used iGoogle.[6] In April 2008, 20% of all visits to Google's homepage used iGoogle.[7]

  1. ^ "Personalize Your Homepage – Google". Google Press Blogspot. May 19, 2005. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
  2. ^ Google Support; iGoogle's Decommission
  3. ^ What's happening to iGoogle? Google Support
  4. ^ The search giant is renaming and adding new features to Google Personalized Home Page (...) iGoogle, as it will be called in a few hours, was the fastest growing product at the company last year (...) Archived February 14, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on September 28, 2009
  5. ^ "Google Web Search Help Center". Archived from the original on March 12, 2007. Retrieved June 17, 2007.
  6. ^ Tech Crunch; iGoogle users
  7. ^ Quittner, Josh (April 30, 2008). "Google's Art of War — With Facebook". Time. Archived from the original on May 2, 2008.