Google is now letting mobile phone users create a personalized version of the Google home page. The personalization feature, available to most phones developed within the last year, allows those users
to conduct Web searches, check Gmail, news headlines, weather and stocks from a central page. Google says the new feature is optimized to work on smaller screens, and enhances the mobile experience by
providing a lot of useful information on a single page, as mobile network connections are far slower than the high speed connections on computers. Analysts say that giving users the ability to program
relevant information is "hugely important" for increasing mobile Web usage. Google said it is also developing the mobile feature for international markets, and is working with mobile network providers
to make Google the default home page on many mobile Web browsers. Google introduced the personalized home page to computer users last year.
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