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Pls explain: iGoogle URLs

Brinke Guthrie [PersonRank 10]

Friday, February 29, 2008
16 years ago2,661 views

why does it look like this sometimes:

http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en&source=iglk

and then like this?

http://www.google.com/ig

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I guess sometimes they'll want to force a UI language on you in order to keep the language consistent between the page you were looking at and iGoogle – so they add the "hl" parameter – and sometimes they'll want to track where people are clicking through from – so they add the "source" parameter.

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

[put at-character here]Brinke, Did you click on the iGoogle link on the main Google search page to get that first URL?

Brinke Guthrie [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

dont remember. i set home page to google.com/ig...but when i hit the google logo in the toolbar rather than my HOME icon, it uses one like this:

http://www.google.com/ig?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&hl=en

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