If you currently use the Google Personalized Home page, pass on by because today I’m going to tell you all about it. I had not bothered to check it out in the past, so recently I found myself curious enough to click on the”Personalized Home” link at the top right of Google.com. What I found there amazed me. From there you need to click on Personalize Your Google Home Page (or just follow my link) near the left-center of the window. Now you can tinker with your page by editing the options for each item and dragging them around to be exactly where you want them, but I would recommend clicking the “Save Page” button first. At this point, if you don’t have any kind of account with Google you will need to sign up for one. It’s free.

After you’ve done that you can customize your Google home to include easy interfaces to other Google services such as Google Mail (aka Gmail) or the Froogle smart shopper search engine. You can further enhance the page by clicking the Add Content link in the top left corner of the window. From there you are given a whole list of features you could add to your custom page. Remember, many items have their own customization options that you can edit by clicking the tiny “edit” link on their title bars. Custom content not even listed can be added as well.

My Google Personalized Home includes:

• Bible Verse of the Day
• 2 Quotes of the Day
• Word of the Day
• "How To" of the Day
• Gmail Interface
• Top News Stories
• Free TXT messaging
• Current Weather and Forecast
• Movie ratings and showtimes for my area

After you have signed in to your Google account, these items can be edited and updated and re-arranged any way you like, at any time, and they are automatically saved! Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day used to be my browser start page, but now it’s Google all the way!