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DREW NOAH: So in this series, I'll be talking about iGoogle which is basically a personalized
homepage from Google that you know includes Google Search like you can see at the top
there and everything you can do with Google.com, but what makes it cool is all these things
you can personalize with it--these little gadgets is what they call them and there's
just a ton out there to pick from and you can even create tabs to arrange your gadgets
in a certain way. Just looking at some of the ones I set up here, the YouTube videos,
this day in history, a language translator, driving directions, a Wikipedia search, this
multi search, searching Dictionary.com, search eBay. So there's just tons of different things
you can do with an iGoogle and personalizing your homepage with a bunch of these gadgets
that of course will--are always updating if there's something like this YouTube gadget,
they'll always be updating or they might do something like search a particular website
like all these other ones do. So, to get started, you probably want a Google account. So, you
know, you want to get an account so you can save your set up and see it every time you
go again. So if you have a Gmail account, you already have a Google account. So just
sign in to your Gmail before you go to google.com/ig. But if you need to sign up for an account,
well just go to sign in at the top, that is after you go to Google.com/ig just--again
and if you don't have a Google account, you click right here to create one. And you'll
need to enter an email address, password, dual word verification then you want to read
through the terms of service and if you agree, hit "I accept. Create my account." So you
can create just a Google account or if you want, create a Gmail account. So you could
go to Gmail.com and create an account that way. Then you'll be able to use Gmail and
Google calendar, two other really great products from Google. But in this series, I'll show
you how to use iGoogle and everything you can do with it.