# What's Your Homepage? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 28, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386 "2011-11-28T23:46:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/41 "2011-11-30T23:35:54Z")
When I used my laptop, it was MyYahoo! Now that I surf on my phone, there is no homepage, obviously. I’m ancient too. ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpine/32/17813_2.png) [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/42 "2011-11-30T23:42:12Z")
Chrome with tabs: Yahoo login page (work email) Gmail login page (personal email) SDMB LiveJournal (what?) Used to have FB, too, but now I use a separate Firefox browser window for that. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/43 "2011-11-30T23:49:18Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Don’t most people have the google search bar thing in their browser? Seems kinda silly to have google as your homepage if you don’t need it to initialize a search. True enough, but occasionally the Google homepage gives you a pretty picture you don’t get to see with the toolbar. Seriously, I use Google as my homepage because it’s nicely generic. Whatever I am looking to do, it will never (doodles aside) distract me enough to keep me from doing it. If the Dope was my homepage, I’d probably open a browser window to order a pizza online or some such and then, after an hour of reading and replying to threads, realize that I’m still hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/44 "2011-12-01T00:01:47Z")
Google. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/45 "2011-12-01T00:11:11Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > I just searched and can’t find an example of Google’s actual home page. Is it just the blank-looking page with the search box in the middle, or is it an actual news page that you can customize? The basic Google home page many of us have been referring to is just the Google logo with the search box in the middle, a black toolbar, and a very few general Google links. I’d link to it, but today it has a Google Doodle tribute to Mark Twain. iGoogle is a customizable Google page which can have news, weather, etc. about:blank would make me think there was something wrong with my connection. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/46 "2011-12-01T00:30:40Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > I just searched and can’t find an example of Google’s actual home page. Is it just the blank-looking page with the search box in the middle, or is it an actual news page that you can customize? The homepage I use (the non-customizable one) looks like [this](http://www.allthatiknow.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/google-home.gif). ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/47 "2011-12-01T12:49:54Z")
I don’t even use about:blank. I just use the empty tab option. That said, I do leave my browser open at all times, so a home page wouldn’t serve any purpose anyways. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/48 "2011-12-01T15:01:53Z")
Google. Then my university’s home page, then about:blank, now back to Google. Good old Google. ---
**Author:** ![geneb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@geneb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/geneb)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386/49 "2011-12-01T21:05:25Z")
[cnn.com](http://cnn.com), though I am headed the about:blank route. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-homepage/604386.md?page=2)