Filed under: Internet, Yahoo!, Beta, Search
Yahoo! starts to roll out new homepage
So what's new? First off, the list of links on the left side of the page has been replaced by a customizable menu that gives you quick access to information like email, stocks, and weather. And that email section? You it's not just for Yahoo! Mail. You can also link your Gmail account and in time Yahoo! plans to add other services as well.
Yahoo! also plans to make its homepage more social by adding the ability to keep up on what your friends/contacts are doing. That could include notifications when friends upload new pictures to Yahoo!'s Flickr. Or it could include updates from other non-Yahoo! social networking sites.
All this talk about making the new Yahoo! homepage more social and more useful is all well and good. But you can't fool me. The ultimate goal here is to make sure the Yahoo! homepage looks less like the AOL homepage. You know, until AOL decides to copy Yahoo! again.
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Jash Sayani said 9:50AM on 9-18-2008
This is the third one.....
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Jeremy Dixon said 11:33AM on 9-18-2008
Kinda, sorta looks like the new Wall Street Journal redesign. I dunno is it just me?
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Christian said 1:19PM on 9-18-2008
I dunno, it feels like Microsoft's Live for me.... With faded background instead of one hue.... boxed text, with left and right adjusted texts on the top...
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Ivan said 3:45PM on 9-18-2008
have you seen Yahoo! Mexico? http://mx.yahoo.com/
its different from yahoo.com and the new yahoo look
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Chris said 9:16AM on 9-19-2008
That is nicer - too bad it's in Spanish :P
Bufsabre said 8:38PM on 9-18-2008
i wonder if its like the new yahoo mail and i can choose to stay with the old version, or if theyre ganna force me to use the new one, admittedly its not that bad but i like the old one
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Chris said 9:16AM on 9-19-2008
I never liked the current redesign, too many different shading directions going on, and the header never looked good up against the top of the window. But this, I LIKE!
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The Gills said 10:07AM on 9-23-2008
I am one of the 1% - I have the home page, no way to change back. I have given feedback for 4 days to Yahoo to explain a problem and no fix, ie the search box hides the web, image, shopping etc links underneath and the bottom of the page scrambles several links together. I'm not incompetent, I did change size of page and other fixes available to me in my tool box. YAHOO listen up...this page is a mess!
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Arlene said 3:11PM on 10-05-2008
I hate the new page! I had finally gotten used to the old new page, and this one is horrible! I don't want to speak for everyone, but I think we should have the option to stay with the old one, and they should not have changed it without asking me!!!!
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