Google Gadgets for Your Webpage!

Now, with "Google Gadgets for your Webpage," users can make their Web sites look more dynamic and content-rich.

Google Gadgets, a tool previously available to users for adding to their personalized Google homepages and Google Desktops, is now available to Webpage owners to add to their own Web sites.

Google Gadgets are actually miniature-sized objects that offer cool and dynamic content that can be placed on any page on the Web.

According to Adam Sah, architect, Google Gadgets, "Now anyone can have a great-looking Web site with automatically updating content. By making Google Gadgets available for users to add to their Webpage, we are working to connect developers with enthusiastic consumers, and to make information universally accessible and useful to individual users."

Google Gadgets allow Webpage owners to add complex, dynamically updating content to their own Web sites, with almost no effort, and at no cost. Users have an enormous variety of around 1,220 Google Gadgets, including games, news clips, weather reports, maps, sports, business, and more to choose from, providing the freedom to select only those gadgets that best complement their page.

Google Gadgets are small bits of code that function as dynamic applications when installed on a Web page.

To add a gadget to their Webpage, users have to visit the directory of "Google Gadgets for your Webpage" and find gadgets that they would like to add, and then select the preferences for the appearance of the gadget on the page. After this, users need to copy and paste the HTML code from the window onto the HTML code for their Web sites.

To distinguish these new Web-based programs from Desktop Gadgets; Google has dubbed them "Universal Gadgets". By contrast, Desktop Gadgets are designed to run only on Google sites, or on users' computer desktops.