Horoscopes Show That Google's Losing Focus

September 29, 2005 / Search Engines / Comments (1)

I can't believe what I see today -- you can sign in for a "personalised" version of the Google homepage, that has weather forecasts (yes weather forecasts!) and news headlines.

Google's Our Philosophy page used to say, "Google does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat". This statement was recently removed.

I have hitherto said that Google "gets" the web; now I believe that it may be losing focus.

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David Seruyange / September 30, 2005 2:40 PM / #

Actually, it's just Google getting RSS. Microsoft has something similar at Start.com and of course everyone knows about My Yahoo!.

I think the destination of that is a customized page to get the feeds you want.

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