# What is your favorite Internet start page? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 18, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642 "2014-02-18T19:12:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/21 "2014-02-19T02:12:28Z")
> [@Inna\_Minnit](#): > > Blank page. I don’t need to wait for a page to load to be able to type in where I really want to go, which isn’t the same place every single time. This. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_York](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_York](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_York)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/22 "2014-02-19T03:51:09Z")
I have 3 tabs open, Gmail, local weather and Google calendar. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/23 "2014-02-19T03:53:54Z")
Google ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/24 "2014-02-19T03:55:04Z")
I use the[Wikipedia home page](http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page). It’s different from the one you search from because it has snippets of featured articles, news, and pictures. I switched to Wiki after they got rid of my Google home page. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/25 "2014-02-19T04:18:58Z")
I started a very similar [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=712341) a couple of weeks ago. It wasn’t that I hated the new My Yahoo all that much, but the quality of the top stories was going downhill. At the end of the thread I said that I’d switched to [protopage.com](http://protopage.com), but it was too slow to load. Now I use Google News as my start page. One drawback is that it doesn’t show the scores of my favorite teams like My Yahoo did. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/26 "2014-02-19T06:45:15Z")
I have Chrome set to open whatever tabs I had open when I closed it. That;s usually the Dope, GMail, and The Old Reader (an RSS Feed Reader), plus anything else I might have been looking at. I rarely close my browser unless I need to restart my computer, which is maybe a couple times a month, so a ‘Start Page’ would be mostly lost on me anyway. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/27 "2014-02-19T07:11:55Z")
AltaVista. (actually, just Google, but logged in my google acct.) ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/28 "2014-02-19T08:01:11Z")
Sydney Morning Herald, but only because I’m too lazy to change it. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/29 "2014-02-19T08:59:40Z")
Google. I’ve had it as my start page for years, ever since they were a brash new search engine. I don’t want a flood of irrelevant crap bombarding me as soon as I log on. ---
**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/30 "2014-02-19T09:11:58Z")
Mine is yahoo/finance (stock market, etc) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/31 "2014-02-19T09:46:58Z")
Feedly. Got to get my webcomics, ya know. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/32 "2014-02-19T10:52:36Z")
It’s called [“Start Page.”](https://startpage.com/) It’s like google, but more private. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/33 "2014-02-19T12:13:28Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I’m a Binger. Truthfully, I just like the photo-splashes. Me too. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/34 "2014-02-19T13:57:46Z")
I find the concept of a “Start Page” kind of archaic. Since I never shut my computer down, I never need to close my favorite web pages. I have SDMB, Ebay, CNN, Yahoo, A bunch of Mac Sites, and my other pages all open and neatly tabbed. That said, my start page is Google search, but only for historical purposes (since Safari has Google search built-in). ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/35 "2014-02-19T18:23:20Z")
FWIW I think the new My Yahoo’s weather applet is linked to [weather.com](http://weather.com) because when the changeover happened, it stated showing me the locations I had saved on [Weather.com](http://Weather.com) which were different than the one is had on my old My Yahoo page. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/36 "2014-02-19T19:02:25Z")
I don’t have a favorite start page, also leaning toward “blank page” to start. But here’s my favorite Internet [end page](http://hmpg.net). Old joke, I know, but I like this implementation. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/37 "2014-02-19T19:14:15Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > I find the concept of a “Start Page” kind of archaic. > Since I never shut my computer down, I never need to close my favorite web pages. > I have SDMB, Ebay, CNN, Yahoo, A bunch of Mac Sites, and my other pages all open and neatly tabbed. > > That said, my start page is Google search, but only for historical purposes (since Safari has Google search built-in). I’d agree with you if not for the fact that I use any one of four or five computers. I’m running three at work and could log on to any one of three or four at home depending on which room I’m in or task that I want to complete. So having a home page with bookmarks to my most visited sites comes in real handy. Like the Op I have been using Yahoo but their recent “improvements” make using my.yahoo very annoying. I’d love to have a secure home page somewhere that has my bookmarks as well as some news. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/38 "2014-02-19T21:00:57Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > I find the concept of a “Start Page” kind of archaic. > Since I never shut my computer down, I never need to close my favorite web pages. > I have SDMB, Ebay, CNN, Yahoo, A bunch of Mac Sites, and my other pages all open and neatly tabbed. > > That said, my start page is Google search, but only for historical purposes (since Safari has Google search built-in). That’s true, but it is very convenient to be able to use that “home” button on your browser for a one-stop news/weather/sports/local/stocks/movie-times finder. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/39 "2014-02-19T21:03:27Z")
Used to use [bbc.co.uk](http://bbc.co.uk), for a more international slant on the news without all the derp and sensationalism, but more recently I use Google, since that’s what I’m looking for the majority of times I simply open a browser other than my initial ‘two sessions/three tabs for the day’ business. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642/40 "2014-02-19T21:08:02Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > That’s true, but it is very convenient to be able to use that “home” button on your browser for a one-stop news/weather/sports/local/stocks/movie-times finder. It’s possible with Firefox and Safari (maybe Explorer, but I don’t use it much) to have a home page defined but still open new pages with a blank page. Still gives you the ability to use the home button for your o-s n/w/s/l/s/m-t finder. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-internet-start-page/681642.md?page=3)