What Are GModules?
A source sent us a tip about this page, which has domain name of gmodules.com. The root resolves to Google.com, and that it is a domain owned by Google. It is not clear what Gmodules are: maybe some kind of new add one that takes a cue from Pageflakes and/or Netvibes? Anyone have better ideas, let us know!
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I think it’s for Google’s personalized home page (http://google.com/ig).
There are many module you can add to your page, just like Netvibes. It is probably an official website for this URL: http://www.google.com/ig/directory
Wild-ass guess: plug-in blocks that can be used on Google Pages (or any web page?) and can talk to Google Base and other google services (similar to Google Adsense ad blocks)??
Google Modules are the “widgets” that you can add to your Google Personalized Homepage. Go to http://www.google.com/ig/, click “add content” and you’ll notice that all the official google modules are hosted at: http://www.google.com/ig/modules/xxx.xml
They are probably the kind of modules one could use to add functionality to whatever site, by invoking methods (uhm , processes) on various Google services that provide an API for this kind of operation.
Google’s response to the iToilet?
I would imagine they are Google Gadgets for the sidebar.
Mmmm… maybe some official content modules for Google Personalized Homepages, like the other listed on this (unofficial) site: http://www.googlemodules.com/
See http://www.google.com/ig/directory?num=24&url=http://base.google.com/base/a/1040659/6208845733264550245&q=google scholar searchbox&start=0
GModules are modules for the Personalized Google Homepages as described above, aka http://www.google.com/ig . There is an API for that at http://www.google.com/apis/homepage/
Here you can submit your own gadget: http://www.google.com/ig/submit
Also I prefer to Use Google to find out -what is GModules. Or If you just want to know more. Or anything else.
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IIRC, the gmodules domain provides the services used by the Google Personalized Homepage modules. When I was fooling around with them at one point, I had to get API keys for the “gmodules” domain for certain things to work.