Exercise #14

 Yahoo!

Yahoo! is a web services provider, wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc. and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

I've used Yahoo! as my homepage since I created my first email account. It did get annoying until I managed to block the ads, and learn which links to avoid. I like the fact I get the main headlines of the day in a pic and summary form. I know what the world is talking about, and all I did was open my browser with one click. If I can't find a link I like here, I'll either Google it or use a couple of my old go-to search engines. Other than that I can't complain, it's not just a blank page with a search bar.(which to me is pointless for a starting point) I've learned things I never would have, or probably even wanted to learn without having this homepage. I've come to love it like my shampoo selection. I have many that do what I want on special occassions, but I always go back to the tried and tested "Old faithful".
The layout is easy to navigate, and customise. (unless it's English(UK) spelling you want

MyYahoo sucks. I like the diverse opinions expressed by the news stories, some conservative with some liberal garbage thrown in. What drives me over the edge is the "Local" news is from places hundreds of miles away. Same with the weather. No way to keep it local. I try to change it and it's the same crap.

Their stories in news and sports, plus videos have gotten so bad lately that I am looking for a new home page. It's like they are written by spoiled rotten children and not proof read by any adult much less a editor.

Even as a liberal I say Yahoo is biased towards the left, WAY left. As a result they attract the worst of the right (I doubt most of them are even registered voters) to the comments section. It is absolutely impossible to have a rational debate with these idiots

DuckDuckGo (DDG) is an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by deliberately showing all users the same search results for a given search term. DuckDuckGo emphasizes returning the best results, rather than the most results, and generates those results from over 400 individual sources, including key crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia, and other search engines like Bing, Yahoo!, Yandex, and Yummly.