Google is the plain Google search page. IGoogle is a personalised search page which you have to log in to. As well as a search window, you can cover it with widgets: Gmail front end, RSS feeds, state of the moon, joke of the day, etc.

personal web portal, you can customize your own homepage on igoogle

1) "iGoogle (formerly Google Personalized Homepage and Google IG), a service of Google, is a customizable AJAX-based startpage or personal web portal much like Netvibes, Pageflakes, My Yahoo!, MySurfPad and Windows Live Personalized Experience. It was originally launched in May 2005. Its features include the capability to add web feeds and Google Gadgets (similar to those available on Google Desktop). It was renamed and expanded on April 30, 2007, and is currently available in many localized versions of Google, in 42 languages, and in over 70 country domain names, as of October 17, 2007." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle 2) "Google search is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. and is the most-used search engine on the Web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. Google search was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997. Beyond the original word-search capability, Google Search provides more than 22 special features, such as: synonyms; weather forecasts; time zones; stock quotes; maps; earthquake data; movie showtimes; airports; home listings; sports scores, etc. (see below: Special features). There are special features for numbers: prices; temperatures; money/unit conversions ("10.5 cm in inches"); calculations ( 3*4+sqrt(6)-pi/2 ); package tracking; patents; area codes; plus rudimentary language translation of displayed pages." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_search Further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

Technically you still have all of the functionality of the 'Classic' homepage when the iGoogle page is loaded. The difference I guess is speed of loading your iGoogle page when compared to loading the 'Classic' Google homepage. The 'Classic' homepage definitely loads quicker. If speed was your main concern you could always use the search box in the upper right hand corner of Firefox, IE 7 or Opera. Hopefully it helps you.

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