[tokenadult]

For me, following the link here comes up as my default set-up for iGoogle, the home page skin that Google will deprecate in another month or so.

I have used Google since the beginning. I was amused, when I updated my personal website at the beginning of this year, to discover that most of the pages on my site still had a paragraph specifically recommending Google, as if most people had never heard of it. That's how enthusiastic I was about Google when I first discovered it. (I discovered Google when it was still Backrub, but examining which search engine spiders visited my site.)

[mortenlarsen]

Try:

https://www.google.com/ncr#q=google+in+1998&safe=off

The ncr part is "no client redirect", this should keep you on google.com instead of redirecting you to a localized version.

[tokenadult]

Thanks for that tip. Alas, I still see iGoogle that way. I can try on another browser. Yep, it works in IE on my desktop machine--Chrome must have deep settings that force the customization to iGoogle.