One typically uses the internet to search for something. Most would agree that Google is the best search engine there is out there. Naturally, Google has become a very common choice when it comes to selecting a homepage. As such, Google offers a way to customize your homepage into something that is so much more than a simple search engine screen. The program is called iGoogle and it’s free!
First of all, you get to choose among thousands of original backgrounds for the page. For those of us with a compulsive desire change our desktop backgrounds every 5 minutes (I can see many hands raising!), this is a very fun feature. You can choose a background to suit your mood or the season or one with your characters from your favourite movie or video game. Can’t find the background you’re looking for? That’s alright because you can actually create and submit one!
Aside from the background themes you can also add a ton of “gadgets”. Gadgets are tabs that can be informative or can be fun little games. For example, you can have the top three news headlines, the word of the day, the top three jokes of the day, currency conversion, sports headlines, stock market stats, the times in different parts of the world, etc… You can also choose from many different game gadgets and play, for example, hangman every day. You are free to add or remove gadgets whenever you want.
All this makes for an original, fun, and informative homepage every day!
