Netcraft Launches Google Gadgets: Cool Tools?

It's not quite your typical Web hosting news fare, but it's interesting nonetheless - which may or may not make it perfect blog fodder (I suppose I'm still in the process of sorting that out). Necraft, one of the Web hosting world's oldest and best sources of research and analysis, reported today that it had introduced three new "gadgets" that enable Netcraft Web tools to be integrated into personalized Google homepages.
The "What's that site running?" tool offers quick access to the Netcraft site query tool, which delivers a detailed report on the technology and network behind a given URL.
The "Netcraft News" feed is pretty self explanatory, and might make a nice complement to the WHIR RSS feeds already running through the truly stylish Google homepages.
And the "Report a phishing site" tool is an extension of Netcraft's anti-phishing toolbar that lets you submit suspected phishing sites directly to Netcraft through the gadget.

I'm a big fan of Netcraft, its reports and its tools. But I'm not so sure how any of these tools (outside of the news feed) fits into my personal vision for a personalized homepage.
The phishing toolbar is a particularly excellent undertaking that is particularly well-suited to the conditions of existing as a downloadable browser toolbar.
But I'm not arguing against the new tools. Maybe my rudimentary fumbling with sports scores and weather widgets are by this point as antiquated as my 8 ball jacket.
I know for sure that Isabel, at least, sees no reason why there shouldn't be a widget for every application under the sun. And she's probably right. It couldn't hurt, right?

Via thewhir