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Meh, I don't use google reader or really care, but I am pissed they plan on ending igoogle in November. It's insane to me that they will do this.

It's my homepage and I'm sure millions of other people's homepages. Setting your homepage to an internet company's site is pretty much their whole goal. It's insane to me that they will give this up.

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> Setting your homepage to an internet company's site is pretty much their whole goal.

That always felt hokey to me. I was always more likely to "homepage" a website that just gave me great content and proportionately less likely to "homepage" a site that wanted to be my home page. This is why HN/reddit are basically this for me.

I think we all tend to assume that our computer habits are shared by millions of nameless other people. Presumably, Google have data on how many people visit igoogle, and it doesn't seem worth keeping.

My nameless millions and I no longer have a 'homepage' - the browser just starts with the tabs I had open last time.

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