Google Personalized Homepage

Google in its continued efforts to make the search experience more fun and interesting; has introduced a new feature yesterday (June 2, 2010) that allows personalization of search pages. This new feature lets users add anything from an image to a favorite photo to the background of the Google homepage, just like one can with their own desktop.

By now users from around the world are taking advantage of the star feature that has been introduced in March this year. It allows people to click on the star marker on their preferred search result or map, so that the next time, that particular result will appear right at the top of the relevant results. This has proved to be extremely helpful and works like a bookmark.

According to the official Google blog, with the new Google home page customization feature, users will be able to choose an image or a photo of their choice either from their computers or from a public gallery hosted by Picasa or their own Picasa Web Album. For those that prefer the original Google look, they can easily switch between classic Google and the customized search page.

Google even asks people to share their customized pages with them by tweeting a picture of the page with the hashtag #myGooglepage.

Users from the United States are said to be the first ones to enjoy this exciting new feature in the next few days. Google tells them to keep a watch out for a link that will appear in the lower left-hand corner of Google.com. Users from other countries will also be included in the excitement soon.

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