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title: "Google promotes Personalized Homepage on google.com"
date: 2006-06-08
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Google promotes Personalized Homepage on google.com

Google is for the first time promoting its [Personalized Homepage](https://web.archive.org/web/20120519022340/http://www.google.com/ig)**on the google.com homepage**, using football World Cup modules/widgets. There is a “New! Add World Cup live scores and schedules to this page” promo link directly under the search query box, which leads to a “Welcome to Your Google homepage. Make it your own” start page.

This is great to see and shows (once again) that Google is tackling Microsoft head-on in key market segments. Indeed earlier this evening [Microsoft announced an upgrade](https://web.archive.org/web/20120519022340/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=206) to *its* personalized homepage, live.com (it will be released next week, but I have preview screenshots [on my ZDNet blog](https://web.archive.org/web/20120519022340/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=206)). Also of course, the little startups are doing a lot in this market currently (Netvibes, Pageflakes, et al). See my post earlier this week – [The Future of Personalized Start Pages](https://web.archive.org/web/20120519022340/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_future_of_p.php) – for my analysis on this.

Screenshots of the google.com promotion and World Cup modules below. Game on!

p.s. I can’t wait for the World Cup to start! I’m a big fan of Brazil, they epitomize the Beautiful Game.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_promotes.php))*