Personalized Google with Calendar Broken in Localized Google
I just tried making my own customized Google homepage with Google Personalized Homepage (also known as Google IG, but no-one knows what IG stands for). It looks nice, and the AJAX interface is very handy. However, the Google Calendar gadget didn’t load any events and didn’t display my agenda.
While playing around a bit trying to change the language, I went to google.com/ig (the universal version) instead of google.se/ig (the Swedish version). Guess what — the calendar gadget worked perfectly.
Apparently, the Google Calendar IG gadget doesn’t work in the localized versions of Google. I haven’t tried this with other local Google versions, but if this is the issue, it is a serious one since Google seems to do whatever they can in order to redirect their users to their respective localized Google domains.
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Hi there,
I’m Davide, same problem here with the Italian locale. I think I’ve found a workaround for this problem, though.
1) Go to http://www.google.com/ig
2) Go to “Preferences” on the right of the search bar.
3) Choose “Swedish” in the “Interface language” and save your Preferences.
You should be able to see BOTH your Calendar Agenda working AND “Sök hela webben - Sök svenska sidor” which I suppose they mean “Search the web - Search Swedish sites”.
Let me know if it works for you and, if so, spread the word around !!! :-P
Davide
Comment by Davide — March 23, 2007 @ 8:43 am
Davide: Thanks, that works! However, I now can’t see the calendar events from the universal google.com/ig. Weird indeed.
Comment by Tim — March 23, 2007 @ 5:52 pm