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The iGoogle Developer Blog unveiled that the experimental version of iGoogle shall induct more users as the service’s result turned out to be a success. Among the upgraded features is the Canvas view, an option that will bring support for OpenSocial gadgets. Though the vertical tabs replacing the horizontal ones; missing functionality of not being able to move a gadget to a different tab; and a couple more features in the new design are bringing complains by users in iGoogle’s discussion board.

This is probably caused by Google’s selection process, picking random users to test out its product, thus resulting in the above stated. A comment from user is linked here, just to give an idea of the disturbances caused by the upgrades. Although we’re used to seeing web applications update much faster, without allowing users to stick to the older version; it’s not a popular move to replace a version of a popular application like iGoogle, with an unfinished version. And obviously if you do not provide a ‘opt-out’ option, it causes some difficulty to the user. Most users thus migrated to My Yahoo, Netvibes, and other such services. As iGoogle was supposed to be a personalized Google homepage, it is yet to fill up on its task.