Google Making It Much Easier To Find and Setup Gadgets

Google announced on their blog today some new features for the Google Personalized Homepage, and I had the opportunity to talk with Sepandar Kamvar, Google’s Engineering Lead for Personalization, about the release.
There are three announcement: something they’re calling “magic tabs”, a “you might also like” feature, and Gadget ratings and comments. The whole point of these features is to help you find and add Gadgets more easilly to your personalized homepage, since doing that can be very time-consuming and difficult, with so many Gadgets. According to the people I talked to, there are 10,000 Google Gadgets now, 4,000 of which have been submitted to Google’s directory (the rest existing somewhere on independent websites).
One feature that is going to be a good help is “You might also like…”, which gives the right side of every Gadget detail page to a list of Gadgets related to the one you’re […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg