iGoogle Redirects

被迫跳转到iGoogle

from Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu

Google would be more than happy if all its users switched from the clean Google homepage to iGoogle. The personalized homepage works best if you have a Google account, it's a way to promote other Google services and to find information about your interests that could be used to personalize search results. At the earnings call from last week, Sergey Brin said that the artist themes launched in April made "hundreds of thousands of people to sign up for iGoogle".
如果用户都把干净的Google的主页改成iGoogle，Google会非常的开心。要使用定制的主页最好有Google的帐号，这是一个推广其他的Google服务和发现关于你的兴趣的信息，这些信息会用来帮助提供为你量身定做的搜索结果。上星期的电话财务报告会上Sergey Brin说四月份推出的艺术家主题让成千上万的人注册使用iGoogle。
Besides adding new themes to promote the service, Google uses some other tricks to increase iGoogle's usage. If you click on the iGoogle link from the homepage, Google sets a cookie preference so that every time you go to Google.com, you are redirected to iGoogle.
除了添加新的主题来推广这一服务，Google还耍了一些小花提高iGoogle的使用量。如果你在主页上点击了iGoogle的链接，Google会在cookie里设置一偏好，这样每次你打开Google的时候就会被转到iGoogle上去。

When you add a gadget from a web page to iGoogle, there's a vague setting enabled by default: "See this gadget when you visit Google.com", which also sets a cookie preference that redirects you to iGoogle.
你通过别的网页在iGoogle上添加一款小插件，会有一个默认的含糊的设置：“访问Google.com的时候显示这一插件”，这也会在cookie里打开把你跳转到iGoogle的偏好。

The cookie preference is reverted when you click on "Classic Home" in iGoogle, but the effect of that extra click is not obvious.
你在iGoogle页面上点击“经典主页”的时候cookie的偏好会恢复过来，但是这多出来的一个点击带来的效果并不明显。

"iGoogle is a more personal way to use Google.com. Customize your page anyway you like, by adding your favorite themes and gadgets from across the web." That's how Google describes the personalized homepage of today, the social network of tomorrow.
“iGoogle是使用Google.com的一个更个性化的方式。你可以随心所欲地定制自己的主页，添加自己喜欢的主题或者是网上的小插件。”这是Google自己描述的今天的个性定制主页，明天的社交型网络。
For those who use both the classic homepage and iGoogle, but would rather see the classic homepage when they go to Google.com, the only solution is to type in the address bar http://www.google.com/ig or http://www.igoogle.com instead of clicking the iGoogle link.
对于这些同时使用经典主页和iGoogle的朋友来说，如果想在访问Google.com的时候更希望看到经典主页，唯一的解决办法是在地址栏里输入http://www.google.com/ig 或者 http://www.igoogle.com ，而不是去点iGoogle的链接。
Google redirects people that visit Google.com to different pages, based on their locations or devices, but it would be nice to explicitly define the preferences. Windows doesn't change the default browser to Internet Explorer just because you accidentally clicked on the IE icon.
根据用户的所在和使用的设备，Google会他们从Google.com转到不同的页面，但是如果能把这些偏好明确一下就好了。Windows不会因为你误点了一下IE的图标就把默认的浏览器改成IE。