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The only thing I noticed apart from the name change was the themes. 

Posted Wednesday 2nd May 2007 11:30 GMT

Currently a small fox is eating sushi by a formal pond. I noticed him washing his smalls yesterday.

It's the best thing ever.

Suprising... 

Posted Wednesday 2nd May 2007 12:15 GMT

I'm suprised apple havent rolled out their iLawyer(tm) to write up some iCeaseAndDecistLetters (tm) , or even announced a plan for iLitigation(tm) against iGoogle....

I wondered what happened.. 

Posted Wednesday 2nd May 2007 12:22 GMT

I spent hours trying to re-build my personalised page, each time though the page reverted to the default unconfigured personalised page.

In the end I gave up and signed out.

The following day, everything was back to normal, except for the silly iGoogle logo.

I guess I must be one of the lucky ones whose data was resored successfully.

iGoogle & Apple Love Up 

Posted Wednesday 2nd May 2007 13:15 GMT

Do you not think that with the launch of the iPhone and the whole Google tie in with that, the iGoogle is somehow designed to be part of the big Apple & Google colaboration to take over the world ?

Can anyone recommend a good search engine? 

Posted Wednesday 2nd May 2007 16:08 GMT

Ugggh. I have no interest in a search engine keeping track of what I look for (web history), who I am (iGoogle) and who my friends might be (Gmail) and then using this stuff to pitch advertising and other unwanted goo at me.

Could anyone point me at the TURN THIS OFF button (I presume if you are not evil, there would be one). Alternatively anyone got any search engine recommendations (perhaps it's time to reinvigorate Altavista)?

Lost 

Posted Wednesday 2nd May 2007 20:12 GMT

I'm in the US and I lost everything as well. I was actually signed on at the time. I clicked on a link and everything vanished. I spent about 15 minutes updating the page and making it better than it was before. Today, my old configuration is back, overwriting the new one I wanted to keep.

RE: Can anyone recommend a good search engine? 

Posted Thursday 3rd May 2007 21:08 GMT

Ok, just get developer's toolbar for firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60) and click 'block cookies'. Then you'll be fine for searching for as long as you want without any pesky google geeks looking at your 'browsing preferences'

Aaaah 

Posted Monday 14th May 2007 13:45 GMT

That explains why I lost my personalised home page and all my tabs :(

Ah well, they needed cleaning up anyway.