Google Personalized Homepage – What Are You Using?
June 24th, 2006
Written By: Adam Sussman
For the past 6 months or so I have been using Google personalized homepage to display all my RSS feeds. It has a great interface as it displays the top three newest entries of the 28 blogs I read on my Google homepage.
Since I go to Google a million times a day for search having all the blog posts on this page is super convenient. It allows me to keep up with everything without having to add an additional layer.
But lately I’ve been noticing there seems to be a long delay between the time someone posts to their blog and me receiving this new update via my Google personalized homepage. I guess part of my obsessive compulsiveness I would like to be the first to know breaking news.
Because of the convenience of having all my blog feeds showing up on the main Google search page I was content with it being a bit slow but for the past 24 hours all my feeds were down for long periods of time and when they did reappear it was in spurts and the data was all muddled.
I am just wondering what other readers people are using to keep up with their blogs and how convenient these readers are?
June 24th, 2006 20:31
I use the same thing and your right it is behind and goes down sometimes.
June 26th, 2006 10:01
I have switched all my rss feeds on my google personalized page to the Google Reader (http://www.google.com/reader/view/) on my page and it appears to me that those feeds are updated a lot more regularly. I love having all my feeds in one place now.
chad
June 26th, 2006 11:32
Thanks Chad, I’ve migrated over and will test this out. So far it looks good!
July 4th, 2006 19:34
The “I’m behind by X minutes” is a big part of why I stopped using bloglines. Although for other people who aren’t RSS fiends I still recommend it as a good place to start. Personally I use sage in my sidebar window in firefox.
As a side note I wonder if having a “significant number” of people subscribed to your feed with google reader will/is/could be used as an indicator of quality/trust.
July 4th, 2006 23:32
Hey Graywolf, that’s a great point about Google possibly using Google Reader blog subscriptions as an indicator of quality / trust. Thanks for the sage tip for firefox. I will definitely check that out!
August 6th, 2006 13:17
I’ve tried the Google Reader, but have gone back to having them all on the Google Home Page, simply because I felt I was missing out on some important posts.
October 13th, 2006 15:52
[…] On a side note, you may recall I switched from using Google’s Personalized Homepage to Sage but just recently I have learned that you can now use tabs on Google’s Personalized Homepage. This is a great way to organize my feeds. […]
December 17th, 2006 15:01
[…] On a side note, you may recall I switched from using Google’s Personalized Homepage to Sage but just recently I have learned that you can now use tabs on Google’s Personalized Homepage. This is a great way to organize my feeds. […]