Google is Changing:

Does anyone actual go to the Google home page? If so why?

The Duke wrote:

Does anyone actual go to the Google home page? If so why?

Habit for me, and also use duckduckgo as my default search in the url bar means if I want “google” I go to the home page.

Older folks I help also like it as they see it as “the internet” or at least the starting point for “the internet” – which I completely get since it is a good a place to start as any. I think it is still the most common “home page”, which I reckon is probably a lot to do with how plain and simple it is. Be interesting to see how it goes and what the effects are. No skin of my nose but sometimes less is more.

It’s my home page for whichever browser I use. Whenever I need to look for something, it’s so easy to type into the middle box, although these days the url bar does the same thing.

I still have my everyday sites bookmarked, although I’ve found I’m accessing them that way a lot less, recently, since installing LastPass last year. That has turned into the simple route to access my most used sites as I don’t need to memorise the LogIn details.

As Bob says, the “fluidity” of ( almost:) ) everything Google, well Photos, Maps, Drive, Google+, etc all together is really handy.

Most of us have sold our souls to google – I think it is more the point specifically about the home page – a bit obsolete with search boxes, the url bar and things like firefox/chrome new tab page. I still find myself using the google home page out of habit, and like others I like the big, obvious text entry box that screams “search”. The fact it has stayed familiar while the rest of the world changes is something I like too. Hope they don’t fix what ain’t broke.

I was just about to say Bob, you can sign into Google straight from the browser, but then I noticed you use Firefox.

I left the FF fold about ten years ago now.