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title: Portals
date: "2005-09-18T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 550
description: I track the growth of AJAX-based personal home pages, looking at how Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Netvibes are using dynamic web tech to build customizable start pages and portals for organizing the web.
keywords: [ajax, web portals, google ig, start.com, netvibes, my web 2.0, web 2.0]
---

AJAX-based personal home pages: Google's [personalised home page](http://www.google.com/ig), Microsoft's [start.com](http://www.start.com/), Yahoo's [My Web 2.0](http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/), and now, [Netvibes](http://www.netvibes.com/).