Comments on: Yahoo home page

By: Ravi Dronamraju

Ravi Dronamraju — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:07:22 +0000

toni and kent,

My point was not about directory being important, but about being a walled garden. for ostensible business reasons yahoo is interested promoting yahoo! network and keeping users on yahoo. My point was that the new homepage illustrates this point. Removing the directory is symbolic.
AOL had interest in keeping people locked up on it’s network. Yahoo is interested in “driving” traffic to their websites. I called yahoo the new AOL of the web because competitively yahoo is interested in keeping people on it’s network. It’s a tough balancing act for yahoo to choose between sending user to the best site vs sending user to a yahoo! site

By: Kent

Kent — Mon, 22 May 2006 14:46:52 +0000

i disagree with ravi calling yahoo the new AOL of the web because it removed the directory. isn;t more of an admission that web search is the way that people discover new sites. search is the new directory.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Fri, 19 May 2006 20:12:27 +0000

The new design looks a lot better then the old one, but there is a major flaw with it. If you are using 800 by 600 resolution the design will not fit unless you select “narrow layout”. They should have made it so that if your resolution is 800 by 600 it gives you the narrow layout and if it is higher it gives you the wide layout.