YouTube Emphasizes Search With Homepage TweaksSource: TechCrunch
As the most popular video portal in the world, it comes as little surprise that YouTube is also effectively the second most popular search engine, coming after only Google in overall search queries.
Yahoo's new home page fails to exciteSource: labs.v3.co.uk
Yahoo's Carol Bartz used today's earnings statement to comment on the company's new web page redesign, which she called "most significant change in our home page since the company's inception.

For everyone who thought the brand forged by Alex Tew was dead, think again. It seems a young innovator has taken the idea one step further and created the Million Dollar Wiki, and the site is received tens of thousands of hits a day.
New Google Groups Is Out Of BetaSource: Google
The slick new Google Groups launched in October last year and available at groups-beta.google.com is now out of beta and moves to groups.google.com.

While setting my Homepage to Newsvine, (using the "use current page" button in options. i had tabs open as well. if you press the "use current page" button to set a home page while you have other tabs open. all of those tabs will be set as your homepage as well.
Protopage V3 releasedSource: blog.protopage.com
Welcome to Protopage V3. An enormous THANK YOU to our loyal users and to everyone that has written in with comments, suggestions and bug reports - your support and feedback continues to be critical in shaping the future of Protopage.
Google introduces customized home pages for groupsSource: Yahoo! News
Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) introduced on Monday the first upgrade to its business software line, offering organizations a way to give individual employees or group members a personalized home page.
The Netscape Homepage ExperienceSource: Netscape.com Hot Stories
Netscape tries out some alternative front pages, but still sticks with the Digg-like ranking list.
Richard Dawkins and Nobel Prize Winners on 'Science Friday' (Webcast)Source: Science Friday
Online audio webcast of 'Science Friday' for the 6th October 2006:This link takes you to the Science Friday homepage should you be in time to catch the broadcast! This link takes you to a page where you can choose which segment to listen to once the program has been archiv …
Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" ButtonSource: The Washington Post
Ever since Google Inc.'s famously spartan home page was released for public testing eight years ago, it has featured a prominent button beneath the search box giving users the cocky option of "I'm Feeling Lucky."
Google executives have long known that almost no one uses it.
Scientists bid to take Neanderthal DNA sampleSource: The Scotsman, The Sunday Times (UK)
From The Scotsman - Scotland on Sunday: Scientists are attempting to extract DNA for the first time from the fossilised bones thought to be of a Neanderthal man who roamed Britain 35,000 years ago.Experts plan to use a tooth from an upper jaw to establish whether the closest …

Many users have blogs or are members on forums. I, being both of these, created 2 images that can appear on sites. There is a button, perfect for sticking in a blog sidebar, and a tag, good for forum signiatures. Hope you like them.

Newsvine is great. New stories pepper the homepage every minute, and keep me interested. It has even become part of my daily routine. But there are things that need fixing, and things that need to be installed.

No, this is not a guy using greasemonkey to edit Google. Google has changed a few of their page designs. The main Google homepages (both personal and classic) look the same, most of the interface still does. The recent changes lie deeper.

Today at 4:16am Yahoo! released Yahoo.com Homepage out to more tester today here is the snapshoot of it

Back in January I posted about Live.com and how I had switched over to Newsvine as my home page. Truth be told, I lied in January. I never switched over because I always loved seeing what was happening on Slashdot... or at Boing Boing.