Good, now I have almost no reason to go to Google's site at all. Between this, Reader and the useless G+, google's web properties have gone almost completely off the rails.

I utterly fail to see why shutting this down was a good idea.

I hit my iGoogle page dozens of times a day and would have put up with ads and all manner of garbage on it because it was so useful.

Outside of My Yahoo (which was recently updated thank goodness), any other alternatives?