Google to add 'news feed' to website and app

Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by chartreusek on Thursday July 20, 2017 @01:28AM (#14810189)

Didn't they try basically this before, then had it fail and discontinue in the form of iGoogle(2005-2013)? The idea of google going back to that is just nuts.

At least DuckDuckGo has got the search page concept right.

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by andygates on Thursday July 20, 2017 @04:56AM (#14810946)

They definitely discontinued it, but that doesn't mean it failed. What do you think made them kill it? At the time, it felt like textbook Google capriciousness (see Reader, etc).

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by fwn on Thursday July 20, 2017 @06:31AM (#14811279)

I expected it to be a strategic push towards their more interactive content aggregation feature built into Google+.

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by azinman2 on Thursday July 20, 2017 @02:02AM (#14810319)

This seems to auto-populate which is different, and is far simpler. iGoogle was widget based and relied on you to pick the info sources.

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Re:Google to add 'news feed' to website and app by dx034 on Thursday July 20, 2017 @02:13AM (#14810367)

But iGoogle still was very popular. It was killed despite being used by many because Google decided everyone should use Google+ from now on.

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