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The search giant is renaming and adding new features to Google Personalized Home Page, a product team said during a briefing with members of the media at company headquarters on Monday.
iGoogle, as it will be called in a few hours, was the fastest growing product at the company last year, said Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google. Personalisation is "one of the biggest advances we've made."
Among the enhancements, Google is announcing a new Gadget Maker feature. There are seven templates of gadgets that people can create and share with others: Framed Photo for creating and updating photos; GoogleGram, an unfolding "greeting card" gadget; Daily Me, which lets people share snippets about their daily lives like a miniblog; a YouTube gadget for a favourite video clip; Free Form, which is simply any text and image; Personal List, of things like favourite songs; and Countdown, for counting down days to events.
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