Of all the startpage sites, Netvibes has made the most concerted effort to attract iGoogle readers, with a series of blog posts and help for developers to remake their iGoogle gadgets. Pick the Basic version and you have a choice of preconfigured dashboards including "G refugee". The VIP option provides support, while the Premium option includes analytics. However, it does have an "I'm just Me" version with three options: Basic (free), VIP ($3.50 per month) and Premium ($499 per month). It's really aimed at large businesses, and last year, it was taken over by the French giant, Dassault Systèmes. NetVibes is another pioneering start page or dashboard. It might be you, but it's obviously not me. I'm not sure who Yahoo is aiming at nowadays. I also find the redesigned Yahoo Mail almost unusable, and I don't even like the redesigned Flickr. My Yahoo has recently been redesigned, but I think my My Yahoo page looks horrible, and it would just take too much work to fix it. Of course, its menu bar links to Yahoo's email, news and other services, not the Google equivalents, so it's not as useful if you don't use Yahoo. ![]() Like igHome and others, it offers to import your iGoogle settings, if you saved them. It was around before Google launched iGoogle, and has many of the same features. Its search box also uses Google Custom Search, but results come with plenty of adverts as well. One of the tabs is an RSS reader that looks like a decent replacement for Google Reader, so this may appeal if you consume a lot of RSS feeds. UStart is a less-boxy attempt to replace iGoogle, and it has tabs but not a black menu bar. IgHome is a bit boxy, but there are plenty of "gadgets" - almost 200,000 - albeit nearly all of them are RSS feeds. It also has a Google search box, and it shows search results without the plethora of adverts you get with Google. It actually bills itself as the "iGoogle Alternative", and it still has the black menu bar for Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Images, Google News etc that Google so foolishly removed from its Search home page. If you want something as much like iGoogle as possible, then igHome is the first start page to try.
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