There is alot to put out on this and I will start with basic button functionality using SearchEngineLand as an example.

Okay, lets look at a button with non-gadget functionality first. It is pretty cool…

Okay I made the buttons, but what do they do? Well it actually depends on what you are doing, the new buttons have differing functionality depending on what the user is doing.

First off these buttons get a feed list, the latest feed stories are displayed from the dropdown menu…

The button itself serves as a bookmark, so if you click on the blue gear icon, it will take you directly to SearchEngineLand.

Where it changes a bit is when the user is typing something into the toolbar searchbar. The icons change…

Okay now if I click on the Searchengine button, I receive the results of that search directly from SearchEngineland…

Okay that is the basic functionality of these buttons, what is new is the ease of creation and of course….

Google Gadgets!

Let’s look at what happens if we tweak the code of these buttons so that we can display gadgets. Let’s use SEOish first. If I wanted to I can have the drop down arrow of my button display a gadget instead of an feed…

Now consider if you want to check your Yahoo messenger real quick…

The possibilities are endless, and this is yet another step toward Google gadgets getting into every Google product.

iGoogle and Google gadgets are becoming the core of Google products, I will put up some more on this later.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 at 9:27 pm and is filed under google, google gadgets.

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