After a quick visit to Yahoo’s Blog, Yodel Anecdotal, you’ll see that they are testing, testing… a new Yahoo.com. Millions of people visit the Yahoo Homepage every single day which means the staff given the job of redesigning the site had a pretty important job. It’s not easy to please everybody, and people are resilient to change, so was Yahoo able to develop something that the masses will love?
Well, we’re not quite sure yet. Reuters described the changes as radical. See for yourself what it will look like:
Probably the biggest change is the column you see on the left side of the page. This is where a user who is logged in will be able to link to 10-20 of the services they use most (Yahoo and non-Yahoo services will be offered). In a way they are combining their plain ole’ Yahoo search page with My Yahoo. They are calling this column the dashboard area.
At this point they aren’t going to push it out to everybody. Only a small percentage of visitors from the United States, the UK, France and India will start seeing the page tomorrow. Aside from the dashboard area, it looks like they are including all of the same elements of the current page like featured content up at the top and news items at the bottom, with Yahoo Services listed off to the right.
It looks like they are just trying to invent something new to compete with Google…To me it looks like the same yahoo page (apart the icons on the left)…to tell you the truth i like the actual yahoo page better. In the preview, even the color is hugly!
This is a clever way to keep its broad base of more than half a million daily Yahoo readers. By including more and more applications at the tip of their fingers, they will remain loyal to the website. For example, I’ve been using My Yahoo as far back as 1996, and don’t intend to change it. It’s the first thing I see when I boot my computer.
New applications are being encouraged by Yahoo to open source developers (hackers) nationwide, in much the same way Apple is promoting applications to their iPhone. Google has been busy writing web applications for quite a while.
It remains to be seen how innovative and useful these new applications will be. I think it’s a step in the right direction for a struggling Yahoo.
I agree with Omar. While I don’t use the Yahoo pages often, I think this design is an improvement on the sliding boxes they have now (which I find quite slow and messing up the page when I don’t want to often). They’re definitely going in the right direction in everything I see them do.
Looks kind like the NY times font.
I’ll stick with NetVibes, but the new Yahoo design looks nice to me.
I like it, well I like the one they currently have, but this one really brings out the links to the left.
I think the new design is a lot less “busy” than the current one. It looks like it’s organized better, and will actually be more useful by having the apps.
PLease somebody tell me how to get rid of this thing. I am serious.
James, clear your cookies. That’s the solution offered in the comments of the article this article links to.
You the man…I’ve lost all my cookies but it is worth it…
I cleared out my cookies and I still have the crappy new page.