After years as my preferred web portal, I have finally kicked Yahoo! to the curb. The last straw was when they began to feature glossy “popular interest” stories in the top spot of the home page. Now, either I will just head straight for Google News, or perhaps I will try one of those personalized portal services. I continue to prefer “blank” as my home page.
Richard Kassissieh is Assistant Head of School for Academics and Strategic Initiatives at
I dumped yahoo for the same reason a long time ago. Customized a Google page…world news, my interests, calendar, flight tracking, no skin, it just loads quickly!
Welcome to the Google club!
The only thing that bugs me about iGoogle is that it overlaps too closely with Mac widgets. I was hoping for something more different from my web portal.