Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Poll: Where does the Internet start for you?

After fighting off a Microsoft takeover and watching his stock take a nosedive, Jerry Yang stepped down from Yahoo. For years, Yahoo was a "default homepage" for many people. Times have changed, however. What is your favorite launch pad for browsing the Internet?
  • Yahoo
  • MSN
  • iGoogle
  • Blank page
  • Self-built page
  • Other (in comments)
Voting is on the right side of TabletBlog, as usual. If you have a favorite default page, share! Also - comments are welcome on how mobile-friendly any of these sites are.

Posted by thoughtfix at 10:21 AM

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15 comments:

ScottMGS said...

I start where I left off last time. Firefox and Opera remember that for me.

11:41 AM
Harriv said...

Address bar is good place to start.

12:46 PM
teradome said...

Netvibes. Word.

1:51 PM
Krakowian said...

Omniweb and Firefox let me pick up where I left off. That's what I like.

-Jon

2:20 PM
john said...

self built page that I sync among multiple devices, so that my common links are the same everywhere.

Though, the most used things I could probably link from iGoogle... but iGoogle has a few limitations that keep me from going there (most notably, the book mark applets wont follow file: urls, and part of what I sync out there are self compiled bus/train schedules that only show the routes/stops I care about).

Oh, and, since the RC30 update, my Android phone wont load iGoogle (and it has never been able to deal with File: urls).

If those things got fixed, I'd probably switch to iGoogle.

2:33 PM
naovouporai said...

gmail!

4:14 PM
Luke Opperman said...

Voted Blank Page, but have to concur with "where I left off" and "address bar" in Firefox.

6:30 PM
SL said...

For me, I use the original google page coupled with Firefox.

6:39 PM
AndreasR said...

www.guardian.co.uk

It has been my start page constantly since 1997 (except when it was called www.guardianunlimited.co.uk

1:59 AM
thp said...

about:blank :)

2:30 AM
jukey said...

On PC: http://netvibes.com
On my N800: http://iphone.netvibes.com

6:40 AM
Ryan McGuire said...

People actually close their browser?

Two things I basically never close (unless my computer crashes):

Firefox and Emacs.

9:46 AM
sachin007 said...

I heard a rumour saying nokia may consider buying yahoo!!

10:38 AM
Alex said...

Default is empty (it's just faster that way); then google reader and gmail in first two tabs.

4:37 PM
benson.m said...

Depends on which browser (and machine):

* In Chromium I use the default new tab screen, but actually mostly use the URL/search bar.

* In FF3 I'm using Google (not iGoogle; too bloatsome) on one machine and about:blank on another.

* In Opera, which I don't use much these days, default, but I almost never start that from scratch. (Even less than the others, that is.)

* And I actually have an out-of-date webcomic/serial scraper cron job generate a home page for Mozilla, which I don't use at all, really. (I should update the script, though, and use the page in another browser...)

8:48 PM

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