Google Search adding Discover-style cards to its homepage – Chrome Unboxed

Do you remember “iGoogle”? I certainly do! Google’s cluttered but useful homepage full of widgets (known as “gadgets”) was a personal dashboard for information that would benefit the user throughout the day which spawned many other tools similar to it like Netvibes.

Sadly, the company shut down iGoogle back in 20013, and after a nine-year-long run, users were sent back to the simple and clean homepage that they were accustomed to since the launch of the search engine.

Today, however, a new handful of Google Discover-style cards are being seen on several people’s Search homepage as shown below, and it could signal a mature return to information dashboards of old like iGoogle was. As with many things Google’s created, it seems it was released before its time and the world wasn’t ready for it until now.

Seen above are the following widgets, or cards. First, we have a weather widget that features the temperature and an icon showing the current condition outside in your zip code….

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