The Weasel
10-13-2006, 14:09
A fairly cool feature I just discovered on Google is on their news page. If you don't know it, the page is news.google.com . It's essentially a 'front page' newspaper collected from a couple gazillion websites/newspapers/tv whatevers. It's good.
In the right side of the top of the page, it has a place to "Personalize" the page, by choosing to add or delete sections. "Standard Sections" is one choice (look at it if you want to remove or rearrange the defaults). The other choice is pretty neat: If you click on "Custom Section" you can "add" a section. Type "Appalachian Trail" (in quotes so you don't get every news story in the world that has "trail" in it) and then save it. There will be a news section on the "front page" just for AT news, which you can see the top/most recent several stories and then everything in recent history.
For us AT junkies, it's kinda neat. Unless you all know about it.
The Weasel
In the right side of the top of the page, it has a place to "Personalize" the page, by choosing to add or delete sections. "Standard Sections" is one choice (look at it if you want to remove or rearrange the defaults). The other choice is pretty neat: If you click on "Custom Section" you can "add" a section. Type "Appalachian Trail" (in quotes so you don't get every news story in the world that has "trail" in it) and then save it. There will be a news section on the "front page" just for AT news, which you can see the top/most recent several stories and then everything in recent history.
For us AT junkies, it's kinda neat. Unless you all know about it.
The Weasel