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GhOstMaStEr

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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2010, 06:11:12 AM »
Home page :  www.avast.com    ;D
S.Engine      : Google

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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2010, 05:43:05 PM »
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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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #17 on: April 25, 2010, 08:08:59 PM »
Home Page: iGoogle
Search Engine: Google, Bing or Yahoo with Surf Canyon

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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #18 on: April 25, 2010, 09:27:18 PM »
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,

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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #19 on: April 27, 2010, 12:03:57 AM »
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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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #20 on: April 27, 2010, 05:03:29 AM »
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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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #21 on: April 27, 2010, 12:19:06 PM »
Wow.... Well, I hadn't heard about blackle & fravia. Thanks for the input everyone.  Keep it coming!  :)

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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #22 on: April 27, 2010, 05:06:01 PM »
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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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #23 on: April 28, 2010, 04:48:28 AM »
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

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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2010, 10:40:21 AM »
Search engine is Firefox.....it's fast and has been reliable

You mean Firefox is your browser, i guess... ;)
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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #25 on: April 29, 2010, 11:42:16 AM »
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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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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #26 on: April 30, 2010, 11:43:44 AM »
Search engine is Firefox.....it's fast and has been reliable

You mean Firefox is your browser, i guess... ;)
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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #27 on: April 30, 2010, 10:02:55 PM »
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,

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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #28 on: April 30, 2010, 10:20:52 PM »
If your interested in searches, here's another one to look at:
http://www.allmyfaves.com/
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Re: Recommend a Homepage/Search Engine!
« Reply #29 on: May 02, 2010, 03:49:51 AM »
If your interested in searches, here's another one to look at:
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.   :)