iGoogle

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 * iGoogle** (formerly **Google Personalized Homepage**) is a personalized start page similar to Netvibes, Live.com, My Yahoo, Pageflakes, and Protopage. Originally launched inMay 2005 and renamed in April 2007with recent updates includingthe capability to add RSS/web feeds andGoogle Gadgets (similar to those available on [|Google Desktop]).

Like other start pages, such as Pageflakes, iGoogle allows the user to create an unlimited number of tabs, allowing users to split their gadgets up, thus only showing certain gadgets at a certain time.

iGoogle also contains a directory which can be used to select content for each tab as shown below: This image shows an example of an existing iGoogle page that has been personalized with multiple tabs.