Geekin'

At the risk of seeming a complete geek in these perilous times, tonight I find myself bothering to blog about ... Google.

Yet somehow it seems to me worth a comment about the fact that they've launched a personalized home page option -- competing directly with search rivals like Yahoo!, MSN, and excite.com, and putting aside -- at least, optionally -- the very simplicity that once made Google ... Google.

That said, once I clicked on the new Personalized link in the upper-right hand corner of the good-old Google interface, I found myself intrigued by the options, the clean layout (some things have not, apparently, gone by the wayside), and (thank Heaven) the complete lack of those wretched AdWords.

Then I remembered signing up for a Google group once upon a time (which incidentally added to my spam quotient immensely, thankee) and realized that I wouldn't have to register all over again, just recall my former password. And, as Ray Romano might say, wa-la. I now have a personalized Google home page. And ... I like it.

No, I'm not running out to sign up for gmail -- I'm not comfortable with having my email messages scanned for "relevant" advertising purposes or any other. But I think I may actually switch to the personalized home page as my initial landing spot when I connect to the Internets.

Now, having spammed this blog entry with, oh, something like a half-dozen instances of the G word, I wonder whether SharedYes will suddenly start having more hits ...

Tess