Taken from From The Register:

"Google has angered some of its personalised homepage users by running tests of an apparently unpopular experimental layout, and refusing to let them opt out or tell them how long the test will last.

The firm announced the trials on its "Personalising Google" group pages on 8 July. To date, there are 579 overwhelmingly negative comments on the new design in the main discussion thread.
...."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/01/google_personal_homepage_brouhaha/

Are they talking about the iGoogle canvas view?