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Scoping Out the New Yahoo! Homepage

By: thesearchagents.com

The first thing you’ll notice about the new Yahoo! homepage is that it is easier to read.  Like the new phone you got your great grandmother for Christmas, the buttons are larger, easier to find, and with identifiable artwork.  For design, whoever was in charge of throwing a pin-stripe gradient behind everything has since been replaced with plain white, with a pinch #EEEEEE to fulfill job description requirements.  But it works, after all, clean is the new cluttered.

There is a continued focus on the Y! homepage being a news destination,  but we are now seeing the expansion of the left sidebar into a personalized bookmark feature.  This may be a slight change, but a nice reaction to iGoogle (I’m not even going to mention Y! Pipes).  Particularly interesting is the default setting to include Facebook and MySpace.  And if you chose to add their default set of suggested sites you will find a more expansive collection of communication portals and popular blogs.  A nice grab to really get yahoo.com as your start page, even if the Facebook hover functionality is more limiting than the FB iPhone App (zing!)………[read entire story]