# Help me pick my new hompage! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 6, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-hompage/135568 "2002-11-06T15:56:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-hompage/135568/1 "2002-11-06T15:56:03Z")
I’ve used Yahoo! as my homepage since I started getting onto the 'net… since I guess 95. Lately, I find its been sucking ass though. Big, horrid ads that take control of your browser so you can’t stop them and pop-ups that sneak up on you into the background better than most porno sites. I would prefer my hompage to be a “portal” site (like Yahoo in that way)… one that has some news on the frontpage and a good search engine right there too. Ideas/opinions please? Preferebly not one that sucks ass as badly as Yahoo. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-hompage/135568/2 "2002-11-06T16:17:51Z")
Use [Google](http://www.google.com) instead. A great search engine, news is one click away…and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-my-new-hompage/135568/3 "2002-11-06T18:00:33Z")
Well, there’s always [this one,](http://www.straightdope.com/) but some people find the search function sort of limited…