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Add a “Subscribe” Button to Google Custom Home Page

I was talking to a co-worker about how awesome the Google Personalized home page is. There’s an advanced interface where you can paste in just about any URL and get it aggregated on the page. How neat is that? Well, it would be even neater if there was a button in the web browser, so you could just visit a web site, and add it to your Google Home Page.

Well, I have done this before … I didn’t invent it, but this little JavaScript bookmark does the trick:

++ Subscribe ++

Subscribe

++ El GOOG ++

You can just drag one of those buttons into your web browser’s bookmark toolbar . . . if you prefer, just make a bookmark from scratch, and set the Location to:

javascript:location.href='http://www.google.com/ig/add?feedurl='+location.href

Then, all you have to do:

And you get: