The reporters who cover tech news this must be exhausted this season. Every five minutes there's another headline about Yahoo, Google or Microsoft!
This *minute* it's about Yahoo. After two years, they've redesigned their homepage. It's slightly cleaner, slightly more modern. It's not as sleek as, say, MSN, but not gritty nuts-and-bolts like Google, either. It's also not a HUGE difference. See for yourself:
Yahoo sees the change as huge, however, and the page will not be the default Yahoo home page right away. According to Yahoo! COO Dan Rosenzweig: "Any time you touch the most visited page on the Internet, it's going to feel like a big change, and we think this is a really big change.''
Jupiter Analyst David Card disagrees. According to the AP:
... Card believes Yahoo's upgrades won't impress younger, cutting-edge Web surfers who are spending an increasing amount of time hanging out at MySpace.com. "They didn't really push the envelope very hard.''
To be fair, it is a big change for Yahoo. Apart from the sleeker look, the new design allows users "pull down interactive menus giving them snapshots of weather, traffic and movie information as well as providing instant access to the site's popular e-mail, instant messaging and music services."
Congratulations on your runner up.
Winner! Best Search Engine Feed goes to… Posted on Saturday 25 March 2006
… Shimon Sandler’s PPC Blog (www.shimonsandler.com) - Congratulations Shimon for getting the most votes in our SEO contest poll and the first SEO contest hosted by Featured Feed Sources.
Other runners up: DigitalGrit Blog, Beanstalk’s SEO Blog, AOSEP Forums & Top Rank
Is shimon still working for your company? We were working on a search program oppty together sometime ago. Raphael
Posted by: Raphael Martinez | May 17, 2006 at 10:55 PM
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Yahoo is not supporting IE7 beta yet. Got a message they only supported IE6 and Foxfire 1.5 more to come in the future
Posted by: Keith Cash | May 22, 2006 at 09:00 AM