A few days ago, my friend told me that she hates the new iGoogle and that her Google homepage is so messy now. I thought that she was just fussy. Well, I just checked the Google message board not too long ago and it looks like she is not alone.

I know how I hate it to be faced with a changed layout without prior notice, like I mentioned in my post about the new Yahoo! Profiles. It looks like Google also was preposterous enough to implement new changes without prior notice and like Yahoo! does not allow users to revert to the old layout while the work out the kinks, unlike eBay.

All the complaints do not mean that people are people are not receptive of change, like Facebook users. They just hate the new layout, plain and simple, even though there were no glitches as far as I could see. Still, if Google had allowed users to opt for the old layout for the time being, I believe that once they have everything sorted out, users could gladly use the new iGoogle, and not threaten to boycott all Google products.

Boy, am I glad that I don’t use iGoogle at all or I would have another problem on my hands building a new Google homepage.