What is a start page (or web portal)? A start page is a customisable homepage. Some examples are iGoogle, Netvibes, My Yahoo!). The example you will be exploring as part of Thing 1 will be iGoogle.
iGoogle lets you create a personalised homepage that contains a Google search box at the top, and your choice of any number of gadgets below. Gadgets come in lots of different forms and provide access to activities and information from all across the web, without ever having to leave your iGoogle page. Examples include: reading headlines from news sources, weather forecasts, stock quotes, storing bookmarks for quick access to your favourite sites from any computer…

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