The Best Home Page
on 06.27.06, 03:00pm in computers • comments (3)
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the various home pages that users can choose - heck I’ve been looking for new ones forever. After checking out all the the big players (Google, Live.com, Start.com, Yahoo.com and MSN.com), I’ve finally decided on what the best home page is:
about:blank
Yup. A blank page. Loads fast, never 404’s and there’s no ads. Perfection.
Tim Marman (June 28, 2006 @ 7:21 am)
Agreed. I used to use Google (not personalized, just google search), but I’ve found that unnecessary with a search bar in Firefox and IE7.
Cale Bruckner (June 28, 2006 @ 9:36 am)
I didn’t know “about:blank” in the location bar would produce this result - interesting. I use a personalized Google home page - usually pretty useless but I keep it around for the few times it produces something worth clicking on. Maybe I’ll give “about:blank” a try.
Cale
http://www.palmit.com (my blog)
robdoyle (June 28, 2006 @ 10:06 am)
I just make my own page, C:\Program Files\index.htm and pop a whole bunch search forms in there, MSN Search, Google, IMDB, Wikipedia, MSWeb, dictionary.com, GameTiger and more. Then add links to favourite news sites, webcomics and stock quotes (insert LARGE unhappy face).
Loads as quick as your blank page, but at least twice as useful.