iGoogle

Recently, I took a look at Tafiti, a search engine powered by Microsoft’s Silverlight. I was pretty impressed (you were too, I’m sure) with it’s graphical power and its ability to possibly make tedious searching less monotonous, if not more enjoyable. I guess I was a bit hard on Google though, seeing as how I bagged on it pretty often. Looks like they got pretty upset and started working harder on iGoogle – and came up with a few themes? Could it be true?

Yep. I’m sorry if this is old news to you, as I discovered this very early this morning, but I was actually pretty surprised by Google’s new theme implementation. However, the excitement was short-lived as the themes were just static images and not exactly a constant part of Google (they only appeared on the homepage of iGoogle, and not in the results as well). Nonetheless, I’m still glad for the improvement.

Just when I thought Microsoft had Google by the neck in a chokehold with Tafiti, Google came and did something like this. Pretty amazing reaction time, unless it was just plain ol’ coincidence acting up.