{"id":7483,"date":"2012-07-05T13:16:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T21:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=7483"},"modified":"2012-07-05T13:16:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T21:16:11","slug":"they-are-taking-igoogle-away-do-not-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/they-are-taking-igoogle-away-do-not-want\/","title":{"rendered":"They are taking iGoogle away.  Do not want!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/igoogle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7484\" title=\"igoogle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/igoogle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>I rely on iGoogle.\u00a0 Its my default page.\u00a0 I love it because its simple, clean, fast.\u00a0 Have my RSS feeds, mail, comics and weather.\u00a0 Its great.\u00a0 And now Google is going to kill it end of next year.\u00a0 Damn.<\/p>\n<p>So why is Google doing this?\u00a0 Not to make friends thats for sure.\u00a0 On the google forum they nearing 2000 message almost all decrying the end of iGoogle.\u00a0 There is even a petition on change.org asking for this decision to be reversed.\u00a0 Buts odds are it will not.\u00a0 Why? Because Google is trying to narrow the pathways that people consume information to improve its efforts into social media.\u00a0 And as much as I really hate losing iGoogle, it does make sense.\u00a0 Right now google does not gain very much when you visit the iGoogle page. Yes there is the top admin bar that is becoming ubiquitous on all Google properties, but thats about it. Nothing to encourage you to share via google+, no adverts, nothing to get you to engage with the Google eco system.<\/p>\n<p>The company did reply to complains recommending users to check Google Play or Google Chrome for substitute apps &#8212; which is pointless since the beauty of iGoogle is the\u00a0 single, convenient page on which to have immediate access to appointments, important links, weather reports, new email, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.. 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So why is Google doing this?\u00a0 Not to make friends thats for sure.\u00a0 On the google&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/they-are-taking-igoogle-away-do-not-want\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1346,44,134],"tags":[240],"class_list":["post-7483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fail","category-google-2","category-rant","category-social-media","tag-igoogle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-1WH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7485,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions\/7485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}