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Y! Centered

Date

3/25/2008 12:36:00 PM [permalink]

Author

yahooza

Entry

http://mashable.com/2008/03/25/yahoo-redesign-homepage/

It's ugly. Lots of white-spaced and wasted pixels "above the fold." Can't blame Y!, as the money is in search and not as a portal / cable operator w/ 1000 channels of niche TV programs and advertising. That whole Semel era where Hollywood meets New Media .... not so hot =P

There's always search.yahoo.com, but who the hell goes there? google.com is faster and easier to type.

I'm sure there were enough usability studies to warrant the change, because it's ugggggly.

Labels: search, yahoo

Comments

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1.  Mookie:

   i saw it the other night and though the same thing. too much waste space at the top. but, then i was glad that we didn't shove six ads in the same space!
   
   btw, if search.yahoo.com is too much to type, you can always use the shortened form:
   
   ysearch.com

   Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:01:00 AM