http://www.google.com/ig

Part of my ongoing Google lifestyle experiment is a new IE startup homepage: http://www.google.com/ig.  It has a very clean, easy to reconfigure (drag & drop) look & feel.  Way less clunky than the my.yahoo.com homepage I used to use.  Definitely worth checking out if you haven't already.

But I had to laugh tonight when I stopped in to get caught up on the news:

Notice the first headline in the ESPN section.  Oops.  Here's where it pointed:

Which resulted in a custom 404 page from ESPN.  I have no idea if this is a glitch on the Google side of things, or ESPN's (although I do have a hunch...)

P.S.  Anyone know what the “ig” in the www.google.com/ig is supposed to indicate?  I always think “iGoogle” as in “iRobot“, but am pretty sure that's not their intention :-)


Posted Oct 21 2005, 07:48 PM by mike-woodring

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dru wrote re: http://www.google.com/ig
on 10-22-2005 7:48 AM
individual google?
Jason wrote re: http://www.google.com/ig
on 08-07-2006 10:17 PM
I'm pretty sure the IG in the address is for "Internet Gateway".
Smooth Corroborator wrote re: http://www.google.com/ig
on 12-19-2006 10:55 PM
Individualized Google?
nmv wrote re: http://www.google.com/ig
on 07-09-2007 4:30 PM
International Google

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