Google has apparently lost the personalized homepage preferences of hundreds of users, if not more. Ari commented on this at 8:53 this morning, and over 150 people have posted as having the problem on Google Groups since 6:45 am.
How You Can ‘Still’ Get on the Digg Homepage
Lately a lot of people who used to get on the Digg homepage constantly have been complaining that they can’t make the homepage anymore. In most cases these people are doing the exact same thing as they used to do before. Here is how you can still get on the homepage:
Google Homepage Skins – Change of Note for SEOs
I just had the official walk-through of Google’s recent announcement for personalized home pages. In a nutshell, they are allowing users the opportunity to skin their home page with one of six different themes. The goal, and I quote, is to "delight users". And they don’t just want to delight them in the short term. They want this to be a long-lasting love affair with the Google home page.
Google Jazzes Up Personalized Homepage
In a recent update, Google has added a new feature to its personalized homepage that might signal a focused effort to snatch another one of Yahoo’s strongholds away. By allowing users to give their Google homepage a more artistic look and feel, the company is sending a clear message that it wants to become the primary portal for everyone’s Internet experience.
How Not to Make the Digg Homepage
Here’s a surefire way of ensuring your site won’t make it to the Digg social news frontpage:
A Yahoo-ized Google Homepage
eWeek’s Steve Bryant wondered what Google’s homepage would look like if it looked more like Yahoo’s. The purists look at him like they’re smelling onions, but others look at it and think it’s not such a bad idea.
More to Digg than the Homepage
Sites like Digg are well known for driving thousands of visitors to a website within a very short period of time.
Pixelotto – Million Dollar Homepage v2
I like Pixelotto.com, Alex Tew’s followup to his Million Dollar Homepage.
How Critical Is Your Homepage?
Recently I came across a customer, who was very adamant on making a cool looking homepage and putting all their promotions and one of the main lead generation links (sign-up for newsletter) only on the homepage.
Google Video Makes The Homepage
Froogle and Groups have been relegated to the out of sight, out of mind dustbin (well, to the More link, really) as Google’s Marissa Mayer formally announced the video link we have been seeing atop the Google search bar for the past few days.