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Mine are:
1. Google (current)
2. Yahoo
3. Alltheweb
The biggest timesaver and bandwidth saver of a Home Page I've ever used. There's simply no site that I want to download everytime I start a browser.
2. google.com
OK - on a nice browser like Opera that allows me a Home Page and the ability to start up the browser with no site in the window, I do set Google as a Home Page, because the toolbar searches don't seem to pick up my advanced search settings cookie.
3. alltheweb.com
Same logic as number 2, but I mostly want to stay in touch with Google because it's the traffic king right now.
It might be helpful to switch over to MSN for a while, just to get the experience of that place a bit more under my skin.
2) about:blank - same as tedster for about the same reasons. I use CrazyBrowser which allows me to setup a home page that is not loaded each time the browser starts up - but the about:blank page has this little amusing piece of statistics that i like to follow: Popups Blocked: 2960
That is: i have both 1) and 2) at the same time. The blank page is what the browser currently starts up with - #1 is what i see when i click the little house icon.
3) is actually a group of pages loaded on separate tabs - the actual pages differ according to which project i'm currently involved in. I'd like to be able to set them as start page(s) but it would slow startup, so i've saved them as a group in stead.
G? No i don't. I use a browser plugin that lets me search all the SE's from my address bar in stead. the address "gg widgets" is a google search for widgets (at www).
/claus
[edited by: claus at 9:28 am (utc) on July 28, 2003]
2. hotmail.com - just to check new spam ;)
3. WebmasterWorld - can't believe noone said that yet.
UK News and Sport headlines....probably wouldnt be too clever as a homepage with dial up though.
When I fire it up, it loads:
1. google news
2. local news website
3. economist
4. recent posts of webmasterworld
5. my sales and web stats page
same here, happens to match the style of my websites, so i feel right at home.
Of course the Google toolbar is installed, so I can start the day with a few searches to see how we rank today.
Next stop is usually the BBC, followed by some forums related to our work, then our site loggers, AdWords and finally WebmasterWorld.
Nick
After all your own home page is the best page on the internet.
Its time you people took my 6 week course on self-gratification.
Prerequisite: Self-denial 101 :)
lawman
Just the other day I set my homepage to an html page residing on my dekstop. The html page contains links to all of my favorite places on the internet.
Now, that's a great idea. No sifting through the Favorites menu after waiting for another page to load.
Computer 2:
Webmasterworld, searchenginewatch, searchengineblog, slashdot.org, useit.com,
At home
laptop IE: WW and toolbar
laptop opera: ww, yahoo mail, adwords, cj
desktop: ie: ww
opera: ww, overture login x 2,
Nine times out of 10 I am opening a book mark showing all the Google Data Centers requesting the cache or links for a particular site I am working on from all of them - A die hard Google Watching fan...
In the past it was Google. However, since the conception of Safari and it's Google bar I don't bother any more.
Got the google toolbar installed though. Easier to use the bar than the google site (imo)
Mack.
