Google Launching New Recommendations Features For Toolbar, Homepage

Google is launching right now two new Search History-based features which look really cool. I had the opportunity to talk to Sepandar Kamvar, Google’s personalization lead, about the new stuff on Monday, and here’s what I learned.
The first new feature is for the personalized homepage. Create a new “magic tab” called Recommendations (create new tab, name it exactly that, and leave checked the “I’m Feeling Lucky” box), and you’ll get a page filled with Gadgets that offer various categories of recommendations, based on other people who searched for the same things you did. Take a look:
Recommendation tabs large Hosted on Zooomr
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The Gadgets on the page are:

Searches – recommends Google News and Google Web searches, based on your search history, and showing some pages from those searches it things you might be interested in.
Groups – recommends Google Groups. This may not be ready […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg