Internet Wrangling

February 09, 2010

We’ve been talking for a few weeks about technology and the internet and how to take advantage of both without wasting time and money. Well, we’re back with another installment. This time it’s to help get that giant internet into something you can digest. We’re going to talk about Google, but rest assured that Yahoo is also capable of most of this, we’re just going to stick with Google.

When you go to google.com, you probably see the standard homepage, clever logo, search bar, that’s about it. But did you know that you can make this page SO MUCH MORE? By logging into google, you can create a custom home page which brings you the things you need. Live.

Rather than search for news, or go to a few different sites each day, you can have google bring you news specific to a single genre or industry. Stop spending time at both NYT and Perez Hilton, instead, have Google give you 3 headlines from “top news” and 3 from “entertainment.” You can also have search terms, so that when a news story pops up somewhere in the world about St. Louis’ old soccer team the Ambush, that story will be brought to you when it is posted.

Weather, stocks, and tons of other applications are at your fingertips. So check it out and whittle down your morning internet time by having it delivered to you just the way you like.

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