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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: Kei on April 23, 2010, 10:23:51 PM
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Hi everyone!
1. What is your homepage or what would you recommend?
2. What search engine do you use & what search engine would you set as the homepage?
I am thinking about changing my homepage right about now. Currently, it is search.yahoo.com, but recently there is something under the search box, "Earth's Biggest Puzzles", that is hard on my eyes & is a little annoying (because the search box is no longer in the middle of the page).
Thanks for any suggestions. :)
P.S. (I looked around the forum for a topic like this already & didn't find one.... Hopefully I didn't miss it some place.)
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heard it was good ;D
(http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif)
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1. What is your homepage or what would you recommend?
about:blank ;)
asyn
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about:blank
asyn
yepp......and loads quickly.. ;D ....naaaaa google ..
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Hi Kei,
This search engine is my favorite for privacy reasons: http://www.ixquick.com/
But to know what others are searching and in what ranking, home page = google
polonus
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Google here, and in IE8, Google translate.
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about:blank only!
:D ;)
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Google for me as it shows important dates:
http://www.google.ca/#q=Hubble+Telescope&ct=hubble10-hp&oi=ddle&fp=610f19d309f278f5
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2. What search engine do you use & what search engine would you set as the homepage?
I also use google, but i block all it's nosy parts for privacy... ;)
Furthermore often used: Wikipedia (for research) and Metager² (no ip logging, but german only)
asyn
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www.google.com
:)
www.yahoo.com is also nice^^
-AnimeLover^^
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Hi :)
Hi Kei,
This search engine is my favorite for privacy reasons: http://www.ixquick.com/
But to know what others are searching and in what ranking, home page = google
polonus
polonus
I tried ixquick Startpage a couple of days ago ... But just couldn't get along with it :-\
Search Results were somewhat... Rubbish! :-[
Kei
Google
Even Better... iGoogle
See picture below ;)
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~lol~ I'm glad to see that everyone who posted was so energetic about the topic. :D
I am between Scroogle & the one polonus mentioned, perhaps alltheweb. Hhmm.... but I am not sure what to think about Scroogle (https://ssl.scroogle.org/) just yet. I put in a search for "what are winlogon notifiers" or just plain "winlogon notifiers" both without the quotes & I didn't see a definition or description about them.... There was a lot of info about malware & trojans + removing them, though.
I went looking around on the forum & found that polonus had mentioned Scroogle b4: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=46437.0 (Go figure!)
I will keep looking for more... I love a fast loading startpage. I like about: blank, but I wouldn't put it on for my parents' computers.... (I did that before & they didn't really know what to do when they didn't see anything show up in the browser....)
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I like about: blank, but I wouldn't put it on for my parents' computers.... (I did that before & they didn't really know what to do when they didn't see anything show up in the browser....
That's how some parents are, nowadays... ;D 8)
asyn
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I like about: blank, but I wouldn't put it on for my parents' computers.... (I did that before & they didn't really know what to do when they didn't see anything show up in the browser....
That's how some parents are, nowadays... ;D 8)
asyn
And some of us parents know more the the kids.... ;D
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try this ..
at the top left of this page, there are links to orkut,gmail, rediff ,youtube etc and the pic is awesome..
http://www.shinysearch.com/myhome.php?style=newyork<ext=hav%20a%20Gooday
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Home page : www.avast.com ;D
S.Engine : Google
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Y would u keep Avast as home page?? We need to register only once a year and prog updates come automatically...did u mean avast forums??
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Home Page: iGoogle
Search Engine: Google, Bing or Yahoo with Surf Canyon
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Dear friends,
I know this is an English speaking forum, but there is also much to be searched in languages you do not know.
How to do that read here: http://www.fravia.com/machine_translation.htm
Enjoy, ye all,
polonus
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Like quite a few others here, about:blank for my home page.
My primary search "engine" (actually multi-engine, it uses Google, Yahoo, and a few others) is Dogpile, although I can't remember if that's what I set as my browser's default. And for looking up info that doesn't have to be up-to-the-second, like historical data, I'll quite commonly use Wikipedia instead (or too, sometimes).
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try blackle.com as homepage..its a energy saving search engine(the search engine is supported by google)...its quick,reliable and ecological(not too much though considering how much power needs a pc to be on0..
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Wow.... Well, I hadn't heard about blackle & fravia. Thanks for the input everyone. Keep it coming! :)
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Whilst blackle.com is very minimalist and I like that being a dial-up user, I see no point in having a search engine as your home page. That honour should fall to a site that you visit most frequently if you bother with a home page at all, which I don't.
I have avast and IE set to about:blank and that is locked, so nothing to hijack that.
That said I spend a bit of time on the avast forums as you might guess, but I don't have my home page set to forum.avast.com/index.php, however I use the firefox Session Manager to reopen any tabs that I had open when firefox was shutdown.
That for me is a better option than any home page.
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I have used Google for my home page for years and have no problem with it.
Search engine is Firefox.....it's fast and has been reliable
Trifles
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Search engine is Firefox.....it's fast and has been reliable
You mean Firefox is your browser, i guess... ;)
asyn
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Hello Kei,
The below might be a good home page for your parents.
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/
There are helpful reminders and options for them or anyone else.
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Search engine is Firefox.....it's fast and has been reliable
You mean Firefox is your browser, i guess... ;)
asyn
ooopppsss...Yeah.... :Dthat's right
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Folks,
Have a look here: http://tools.search.yahoo.com/searchtour.html
and open this page: http://fravia.com/main.htm
Searching has another meaning now,
pol
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If your interested in searches, here's another one to look at:
http://www.allmyfaves.com/ (http://www.allmyfaves.com/)
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If your interested in searches, here's another one to look at:
http://www.allmyfaves.com/ (http://www.allmyfaves.com/)
Hi Bob! All I can say about that one is: "Wow!"
I saw so many sites that I wanted to run from the screen. XD (Then again, I was on the tablet, so I had to scroll down the page.)
& pol, that's a good suggestion about using the tour feature for a search engine. (That's something I often overlook.)
Thank you both & as usual, thanks everyone. :)
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Something appears to have happened to Scroogle....
https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi Scroogle has been blocked (title of page).... There's a message at the link....
Edit: & so I switched to ixquick....
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Something appears to have happened to Scroogle....
https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi Scroogle has been blocked (title of page).... There's a message at the link....
Thanks Kei, some of us already heard of it... Bad news..!! :(
asyn
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what's scroggle ??? Google mother search engine ??? ;D ...ok just kidding I've never used it so I don't really care. Sorry for you guys ;)
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Something appears to have happened to Scroogle....
https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi Scroogle has been blocked (title of page).... There's a message at the link....
Discussed here already:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=59432.msg502524#msg502524
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I use my.myway.com as my home page. It has no ads or animations and loads extremely fast. I went to it back when I was on dial-up and the Yahoo home page kept getting slower and slower due to all the ads and things they kept adding to it. I've just stuck to it because I see no reason to change. My search engine is the tried and true Google but it is the only product of theirs that I will use.