Comments on: New Yahoo Home Page Caught In The Wild

By: Marvin

Marvin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:06:38 +0000

I do not like the new Yahoo homepage. I don’t like the customizable stuff on the left. I don’t like that they pop up when hovered over, it slows down the loading of the page. They also are a problem after I’ve clicked a website in my favorites list, after the favorites list has popped back up to the menu, then the pointer is left hovering over one of those damned pop up buttons and the page is trying to redirect while I’m telling it to go to the webpage I’ve specified out of my favorites list. I cannot use Yahoo as a home page on computers at work anymore because now they can be customized and every one of the browsers can be made different by the employees..changing the skin color is OK, just don’t allow buttons to added or removed. Also another thing that sucks is the focus for the search never comes back until you put it there manually and you can’t put it there manually and have it stay there until the slow-assed Yahoo page gets through loading. I liked the simpler, fixed options of the earlier Yahoo page. I didn’t even like it as well as the previous version to that which was changed about a year ago. Why must you always mess with things? Leave well enough alone! And where is the Yahoo Maps button on the left? Hmmm? I don’t give a crap about ebay, twitter, facebook or any of that. If I want to go there, I have a favorites list to put them in. But quick lookups of maps, weather, email, and basic services are nice to have on the yahoo home page. But the rest of it, who cares? If it were up to me, a search engine would be simple like Google’s with only a few spartan features like map lookup, weather, news, and email. Leave the rest of the crazy stuff to the individual to put in their favorites list. And take me back to a search engine that I can confortably use as a “standard” at work that can’t be customized or changed, and is very quick to load without the current focus problems of the new page. Simple, simple, simple…keep it simple!

By: Jimmy HATES Yahoo

Jimmy HATES Yahoo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:47:39 +0000

Since the new crappy page became permanent on November 11th, here’s what you can do:

Found a link where we can give feedback to those morons at Yahoo. It’s a direct feedback link for the “team who created the new Yahoo! homepage.” Let’s tell them it sucks ass.

http://help.yah...orms_index.html

Please spread around.

LET’S GET THE OLD YAHOO BACK!

By: betsy0275

betsy0275 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:14:49 +0000

you cut me off on an inportant conversation,we are concidering quiting your servce.why should we stay with your companyi

By: rmiller

rmiller — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:54:36 +0000

Please Yahoo! stop making things less intuitive and cluttered…Although Google is a little too minimalistic for my tastes, I think that is now the lesser evil of the two extremes. At least give users the option to skin the homepage to their liking or you will lose use permanently to GMail.

By: Ex Yahoo User

Ex Yahoo User — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:10:29 +0000

If Yahoo discontinues their original user friendly version everybody I know (i’m a computer tech) including myself will be switching over to Google. We are not a lone, there are LEGIONS of people who are disappointed with the new version.
I suggest Yahoo listen up. Their is a negative consensus forming.
LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS YAHOO!

By: karl

karl — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:38:21 +0000

The new homepage is a total mess with OFF font sizes, line spacing, color schemes and general look and feel and content orginization. It seems that 5 development groups were working on the project without talking to each other about applying standards, widgets etc. Please take me back to the classic page or I’m gone….nuff said.

By: What Yahoo’s New Home Page Will Look Like « TechWorthy

What Yahoo’s New Home Page Will Look Like « TechWorthy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:57:21 +0000

[...] final version looks a little more like one of the test pages we caught in the wild in March, without the dark background coloring on the left sidebar. But it has evolved further from that [...]

By: New Yahoo Home Page Tomorrow. Here’s What It Looks Like

New Yahoo Home Page Tomorrow. Here’s What It Looks Like — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:05:59 +0000

[...] final version looks a little more like one of the test pages we caught in the wild in March, without the dark background coloring on the left sidebar. But it has evolved further from that [...]

By: Shayne Catrett

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:46:10 +0000

It was hitting my work PC ago. Was not very fond of it then.

http://brightki...cd7003048c10834

By: Zurik Phillips

Zurik Phillips — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:05:42 +0000

Here us your fix…hope you like it!

By: Natasha

Natasha — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:22:13 +0000

Yahoo’s red logo stands out and it has been their recognizable brand logo. What’s up with purple? ‘Wear color purple’ did not work out, why keep trying? Just because Seth Godin said a purple cow would stand out, Yahoo does not need to become purple. ( Yahoo is not a cow. )

Y’s current home page is clean enough. Move the red logo from the very top to the left hand side and align it with the search field; this will bring the rest of the site up and would give Yahoo more space to fill up. And, leave the rest as it is.

At some recent green tech conference, a smart woman speaker said: “everyone claims to be green now. Do not need to say you are green, you need to be remarkable.” To periphrases that — ‘Yahoo, you do not need to turn purple to be remarkable.’

By: Roman

Roman — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:09:50 +0000

Hold on chaps, wait a bit – I promise you you won’t be disappointed

By: New Yahoo Homepage Is More Sociable | Business 2.0 Press

New Yahoo Homepage Is More Sociable | Business 2.0 Press — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:54:23 +0000

[...] The new Yahoo features definitely pose a very significant threat to start-up page sites such as NetVibes. Although NetVibes is now getting more traffic than ever, probably because it has been significantly improved over the last few months, still needs to anticipate Yahoo’s moves and continue to innovate with yet more useful and exclusive applications. Via [...]

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Yahoo schimba pagina | Stiri.IT — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:22:14 +0000

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By: Vern

Vern — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:43:00 +0000

Yer full of shit. No such thing.

By: Nicholas James

Nicholas James — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:00:01 +0000

That really is one huge ad!

By: Salim Mitha

Salim Mitha — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:12:40 +0000

I agree with almost everything you have said, especially on the colour change and also on needing to concentrate on the ad network side of the business. However, I noticed last week that Y! is starting to use Google Adsense on My Y!, so it appears they have given up on the “content network” side of the game. See here:
http://busterbl...-windows-whoah/

By: 42"

42" — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:25:14 +0000

I frankly can’t stand the new homepage, and would love to revert back. Maybe (probably?) I’m incompetent, but at least 50% of the time that I start typing something into the search box, the new homepage flips out, stops recording what I’m typing, and then I new to re-place the cursor in the search box and re-type what I was searching for. Most annoying thing ever.

By: indigo's me2DAY

indigo's me2DAY — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:56:06 +0000

로사의 생각…

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By: gercekci

gercekci — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:53:35 +0000

wonderfulllllll

By: GuiasLocal

GuiasLocal — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:22:32 +0000

Too much too handle Yahoo. Learn from Yoda, he knows: “Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.”

Yoda

By: Ari

Ari — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:02:40 +0000

How does this solve the fundamental problem- that Yahoo has no idea what kind of business it is, or what kind of business it should be in?

The idea of a generic web portal is just a geek’s plaything. A grown-up business needs to identify specific business segments that it can make PROFITS in, target those, and exit everything else.

Yahoo’s new CEO has not shown the courage to focus Yahoo around 1 or 2 key profitable businesses and drop the rest. Currently, the display advertising business (in which it painfully lags Google) is subsidising the 100s of unprofitable ‘businesses’ that just add costs without adding revenues.

Is Yahoo a media company, a services company, a software company? Nobody knows.

By: Sneak Peek: New Yahoo Home Page | Blippitt

Sneak Peek: New Yahoo Home Page | Blippitt — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:01:02 +0000

[...] was scheduled to have already released its new home page by now but rumor has it that CEO Carol Bartz wants to conduct more testing [...]

By: Virtual Web Symphony

Virtual Web Symphony — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:12:54 +0000

Simple website design is always preferred. Too much experimentation is always detested. Keep the design simple and change only if adverse comments are received. I don’t think there is no problem with Yahoo page as such. it is quite good.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:23:25 +0000

Ads? Firefox + Ad Block Plus = No more adds.