If you’re a Google Home user, you can export your homepage to another account. This will allow you to use another Google account for your Google Home, and keep all of your settings and preferences. To do this, open the Google Home app on your device and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the screen. On the left side of the screen, you’ll see a list of accounts that you can add as a source for your homepage. Click on the account that you want to add your homepage to, and then click on the blue “export” button. The export process will take a few minutes to complete, and once it’s done, you’ll see a new page in the app with an exported website name. You can now use this website as your new homepage for your Google Home!
iGoogle
For those of you who don’t know what iGoogle is, it’s a customizable homepage that contains the Google Search box and then your personalized gadgets. There are tons of different things you can add like news, weather, Gmail, stock reports, RSS feeds from any site, games, movie times…etc. In fact you can even design your own iGoogle gadget if you want. It also lets you pick custom themes, move the gadgets around, and create new tabs for even more gadgets.
If you have been customizing your iGoogle homepage to perfection over several months, it would certainly be painful to have to start over if you needed to change accounts. To export and save the settings click on My Account located in the top right hand corner of the homepage.
Then under My Products click on the Settings link next to iGoogle.
Scroll all the way to the bottom of the iGoogle Settings page and click on Export iGoogle settings to your computer.
Save the XML file to a location on your hard drive.
Now when you sign into your different account go to the bottom of the Settings page. This time browse to the location of your saved iGoogle XML document and then click on Import.
It only takes a second for the import to complete and when it does, go to the homepage and you’ll have everything there exactly how it was in your old account. This quick tip will save a lot of time and frustration when moving between Google accounts.
