A new pretty cool feature from Google. Now you can pick how many stories are displayed and move the sections around on the Google News homepage.
But the coolest thing is that you can pick a custom section — so if you have any news searches you make on a regular basis (I have a few that I do every day) you can now add those to your custom Google news homepage.
And even cooler! They have made a layer based personalization feature that seems to work on all platforms and in all browsers!
I’ll just have to take a good look at their code for doing this for KitSiPub, my Content Management System…
More about this:
networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39128558,00.htm
www.webuser.co.uk/news/62248.html?aff=rss
news.zdnet.com/2102-9588_22-5607167.html?tag=printthis
Update in January 2007: Imagine that I thought Google News personlaisation was cool. I had now idea of what would come… (yes I’m talking about google.com/ig)
