Yahoo News has launched a beta version of its massively popular news site that reaches a reported 44 million unique visitors a month. The new site has introduced a number of basic aesthetic changes (the font is slightly larger and there’s more space between text) along with some new design changes that incorporate rich media and gear the site to better serve its diverse variety of readers. To get to the new site, head to Yahoo News and hit the link at the top of the page.
Alan Warms, Yahoo’s VP GM of News, Technology, and Education, says that the site has been tweaked to allow its editors more flexibility when it comes to incorporating media like videos and photos. He also says that the site is being adjusted to give readers easier access to content: at the bottom of each article the site will now include a handful of links to related stories and popular articles, both on Yahoo and elsewhere on the web (this feature incorporates the Buzztracker technology that Yahoo acquired last year).
Yahoo will will also pay attention to where its users are coming from – if a reader comes from Digg or Yahoo Buzz, only five paragraphs of their news stories will be shown initially, with the related links prominently featured (Yahoo figures that these readers are more likely to click through to new stories, and are less concerned with reading the full article). Readers who visit Yahoo News directly will be shown the full articles by default, and there will be an option for all readers to automatically show full articles.
Because of Yahoo’s massive amount of traffic it has to be careful whenever it institutes a new design, so the site may remain in beta for some time. Last month the site launched a new home page for the first time in over a year.
Great, Yahoo arise from the shadow to compete with Google
the homepage of tomorrow will be your custom location on the internet. your personalized location channel combined with open social. a mashup of plugin applications from across the net.
the company that can best mash these apps up in a user and business friendly natural language uniform manner will dominate the net.
MashupLocator- get crushed!
They’re firing a couple thousand people too. Sure beats getting bought by Redmond for $33. Huzzah!
I think that Yahoo has already fallen off the boat. It’s hanging on for dear life.
I think you’re right as much as I hate to admit it. It looks like the current leadership is about to sacrifice another load of passionate Yahoo’s to save their own skin while stuffing their pockets. How can they look at themselves in the mirror after destroying so much value and leaving people without a job? They’re the ones who blew it.
I’d like to see a real ass-kicker like Jason Calcanis or Arrington run the place or at least take a prominent role. I think it would reinvigorate the troops and revitalize the company….unless you’re right & it’s too late?
I was seeing the new site (love it) and it’s gone now.
I’m still seeing it. Did you hit the link at the top?
ah you’re right. there it is. now i wish they’d do this with the new yahoo front door.
Definitely more NYTimes like…
Seems like they are trying hard to improve the site. Interesting technique to change the look of the site if people are coming from social networks. I think that is the way of the future. To further customize sites depending on statistics you have on the visitor.
I’m not sure if I like it to much. Sure it can be helpful but I feel uneasy when all our internet habits are saved in databases that companies can use for whatever purposes they want without any rules.
I love the new design! Much nice than before.
I like the new site, I’m not sure whether it’s just me, but I get bored very easily with site layouts, If i visit them often. Specially when it comes to my own site… I have a bad habit of changing themes very often, gotta get outta that funk..
How may I go about finding Alan Warms’ email address?
glad they changed the look, I hated the old one.
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Y! News is all set to become another new Y! like home page. The design simply sucks for me. May be it’s just me…
Good thing they are actually HIRING. Some people see stuff in the intarwebz, and claim it as gospel.. peons.
Yahoo hiring?? Not in 90% of groups.
Sorry, you are the weakest link. Goodbye!!
Every company should make adjustment and innovation if they don’t want to be left behind their competitors
Tweacking, when they should be innovating. Signs of too many cooks and not enough leadership.
-Dash
http://adecon101.blogspot.com/
With so many cooks, they probably would have caught the spelling error.
TechCrunch, it’s time to meet CreditCrunch.
Web 2.0 is DEAD.
please don’t call the next wave Web 3.0. How about The Age of the Interface
The old layout is 5 years out of date. They’ve finally caught up with a cleaner, more refined gui that NY Times, Times Online, Guardian, have had for the past few years.
Sweet, they’ve caught up to *newspapers*
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not much new
wait a second…does anyone think that the new yahoo looks like my site? do i have a lawsuit here?
http://www.solarfeeds.com
-scott
not even close. sure yahoo! news is using a three column layout, but nothing even close to your god awful looking site.
Hello…………
This is a great site
Aces!
Well heres the issues with yahoos new news site.
You also get the ‘read full article’ button if you click on a news story on yahoos main page. (make your users do extra work <check for web 2.0)
Next, because they went with a font that is 6 points too large, it strains your eyes to even read it. (Use large font to look like you add content for web 2.0<check)
The double space between the article is so pointless, that you have to scroll more to read. (add space between links to show you have more content <check for web 2.0)
They added images for the sake of adding images. they do nothing to the content. (add things that have nothing to do with anything to look like you have more content <check for web 2.0)
Light color font on a white screen <check for web 2.0
Lets simply leave yahoo news for an easier to read news site.
I can’t even imagine what things can be improved in Yahoo design. The site seems to be so completed.