Comments on: Two more iGoogle alternatives

The new Symbaloo home page helper and Yahoo's not-so-new Delicious bookmark manager give you different ways to access your favorite Web resources.

[Stefkesplace]

Easy, just put the igoogle page in an other language and you have the old style.
For instance: http://www.google.com/ig?hl=nl is different layout from http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en

[veghs]

Stefkesplace, yes, it works for now. The question is, for how long? Or rather, will Google reconsider? It would be nice to read some insider info on this - CNEt, perhaps an interview with the Google person in charge in light of this flood of criticism? While you are at it, pls interview the Facebook folks as well. I'd like to see whether the recent changes on these popular sites which were absolutely unnecessary and made the sites worse (in terms of design and/or functionality) and which were forced on the users are actually a start of a trend?

[twolf2919]

Why are you "knuckling under" by thinking of getting used to the new iGoogle? Google is beginning to behave like Microsoft by simply *telling us* what we're supposed to like. Google seems to care little for its users - otherwise it wouldn't ignore the literally thousands of negative posts in the Google forum regarding this. Someone even started a petition to try to get Google to revert the page - it's at: http://www.petitiononline.com/igoogle/
There are around 2000 signatures already. If you or your readers would sign it, perhaps it can be sent to Google's "public relations" department? (I'm not sure the author of the petition knows yet where to send it).

[pjhenry1216]

I honestly don't feel like I lost that much going from one to the other. Especially once widget creators start taking advantage of the canvas view, it'll probably feel a bit more useful. I'll admit that having one-click to the inbox go away sucks, but its remedied if you add a bookmark to it (assuming you use google bookmarks). Its a crappy workaround, but thats really the only thing I miss from the old one. That and some widgets seem to not work correctly with links going to the wrong places (which I hope gets fixed soon as they're bugs, not features).

[yanchineseguy]

I actually like having the panel on the left rather than at the top. There are two reasons. First, for widescren displays, which many people have now, having a selection list on the left or right side takes advantage of the widescreen and now I have to scroll a bit less. Second, I had set up different widgets on several different tabs. With the new left side expandable menu, I can get to specific widgets without having to switch tabs. It's like having all the widgets on all tabs available to me on a single tab.

[acter]

A lot of us don't have wide screens, and at least the old tabs didn't list everything that was on that tab, since you could already SEE it. This new page is awful, and I really hate having my Gmail showing the first two lines of every mail as a matter of course now.

[whitneyl]

I don't like the new layout. I liked the tabs at the top. Just when I was getting used to Igoogle, they change it. Why screw around with a good thing. I'm going to sign that petition. I still like the idea of Igoogle, so I'll probably stick with int anyway, but I do prefer the previous layout.

[equeen10]

Thanks for looking at iGoogle alernatives. I wish you or someone else write about the real story here though: Google has really infuriated its faithful and loyal users to a point where we want to shun them all together. That's a really big brand issue for the business - considering their promise is to do no evil.

I haven't yet made the switch, but i want to if only to send the message to iGoogle that they are completely ignoring their users. I guess they feel too powerful that losing a few of us doesn't matter any more. They may not feel the pain yet, but in the longterm this type of action will be their downfall.