So they’re here. The UK edition of Google ig (the personalised homepage) has finally caught up with its American counterpart and gained tabs. Tabs allow the user to have a set of ‘pages’ on their ig homepage, allowing for greater flexibility in the layout of their homepage and how modules are categorised.

What I fail to understand is why it took so long? Before I started using the ig (admittedly it took a long time for me to start, too) I was using My Yahoo! as my personalised homepage. My Yahoo! has had ‘pages’ support for many, many years and seems such an obvious extension of the personalised homepage system that it’s surprising that Google took so long to implement it.

Commiserations to those who were using google.co.uk/ig as a way to get rid of the tabs - it’ll no longer work!