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What is your homepage?

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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Hi,

Was just thinking today as I changed my homepage from the Firefox start page to www.google.co.uk that everyone has Google as there homepage. I want to use a different homepage with something better to look at but I can't think of what website to use (cos I'm really clever me :yeees: ). What homepage do you use? Something other than Google?

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Facebook :razz:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Google Mail's front page for me.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    iGoogle/livejournal/thesite forums/facebook/twitter/greyhound walks forums.

    In that order :p.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Speed Dial (add-on for Firefox).
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I have google crome.. and on the homepage I have a link to: Thesite, Facebook, Google, Slink, Hotmail, Urban Dictionary and Arsenal.com

    I think there are more than that, but am out atm so can't check :p
    Xx
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    http://www.gamefaqs.com/

    This is what it has been since 2002. I used to visit it a lot, nowadays not so much. I keep it so I can remember the poll.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I have google at home.

    HM Revenue & Customs at work.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I have Safari so mine if giant pictures of sites i have chosen.

    It goes tumblr, youtube, twitter, facebook, BBC radio1, T in the park.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Google. Has been for over a decade...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Click to see more wrote: »
    Google. Has been for over a decade...

    Seriously? Respect if that's true. I was using Google in year 2000, slightly before it hit the big time, but it wasn't my main search engine. It was around about July 2001 when I read an article on "Do you Google?" (play-on-words of do you Yahoo?), when Google hit the big time and thankfully surpassed Yahoo as the king of search engines. I was never a fan of Yahoo. I was a keen user of Infoseek, Profusion and Dogpile, then Google finally converted me around 2005. Granted, Google is awesome with lots of options, but at the same time, it is sad that most people nowadays aren't aware of other search engines.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    BBC News.
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    Dr PirateDr Pirate Posts: 8,303 Legendary Poster
    http://vbulletin.thesite.org/forumdisplay.php?f=98
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Porn Tube
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Actually, google usually. It loads quicker.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Dr Pirate wrote: »
    http://vbulletin.thesite.org/forumdisplay.php?f=98

    Is it just me, or others too? When I click that link, it logs me out of these boards.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I stay logged in.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well it is obvious to set your home page as a Google But i am different. I don't like to set homepage. Because i don't like to get any result when i double clicking on my browser.
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    Monserrat wrote: »
    Is it just me, or others too? When I click that link, it logs me out of these boards.
    Maybe you've logged in at .org.uk, instead of plain .org (which didn't exist initially). The browser doesn't recognise it and doesn't show you logged in. It shouldn't log you out from .org.uk though.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    About:Blank
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    Mist wrote: »
    About:Blank
    My home page at work is about:robots. It only works in firefox though.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Indrid Cold wrote: »
    Maybe you've logged in at .org.uk, instead of plain .org (which didn't exist initially). The browser doesn't recognise it and doesn't show you logged in. It shouldn't log you out from .org.uk though.

    Cheers Indrid. It must be that then, coz I'm always using .org.uk in my Firefox Speed Dial. Perhaps there was a domain change somewhere in my 8 years here :-)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    www.saveswatts.com

    It's like Google, but it's black so uses less energy to power it. I used to have Givoogle, which donated money to cancer research with every search, but then that got shut down :(
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ahh, so it just piggy-backs onto Google. There is nothing to stop you from using Google on a black background using any of these 3 steps:

    1. Log into your iGoogle and change the background colour to black. (I have mine set to dark blue)

    2. Go into your browser settings and force a black background to override all (or certain) web sites.

    3. Install 'Stylish' and use the black user style for Google.

    Plus, the black vs white isn't such an issue with TFT screens. It was more of an issue back in the dinosaur days of CRTs :-)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Indrid Cold wrote: »
    My home page at work is about:robots. It only works in firefox though.

    Ha, I didn't know about that one
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Monserrat wrote: »
    Seriously? Respect if that's true. I was using Google in year 2000, slightly before it hit the big time, but it wasn't my main search engine. It was around about July 2001 when I read an article on "Do you Google?" (play-on-words of do you Yahoo?), when Google hit the big time and thankfully surpassed Yahoo as the king of search engines. I was never a fan of Yahoo. I was a keen user of Infoseek, Profusion and Dogpile, then Google finally converted me around 2005. Granted, Google is awesome with lots of options, but at the same time, it is sad that most people nowadays aren't aware of other search engines.

    Aye, back in late 1999. Showing my age now... ;)

    The olden days. Overclocking my K6/2-400 to 550mhz, my Celeron 300a up to over 500mhz... back when I was a proper geek. Hanging around on geeky-forums, living, working and breathing computers... Google was great. It was faster, more accurate, and more tweakable than anything else at the time.

    It was Yahoo! mostly before that. :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Firefox start page.

    I've just never bothered to change it.
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