Yahoo takes cue from Facebook in website revamp

[garbon]

http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-takes-cue-facebook-website-revamp-135908335--sector.html

Yahoo Inc is rolling out a revamped look for its website aimed at making the Web portal more modern and attractive to users.

"We wanted it to be familiar but also wanted it to embrace some of the modern paradigms of the Web," Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said on NBC's "Today" show on Wednesday.

"One thing that I really like is this very personalized newsfeed, it's infinite and you can go on scrolling forever," she said.

In a blog post, Mayer said the company will begin introducing the changes over the next few days, with more changes and improvements expected in the coming months. The endless newsfeed containing stories, pictures or video is similar to feeds on Facebook Inc as well as Twitter.

Mayer also said in her blog that the website would feature newly designed applications, allow users to log in with their Yahoo or Facebook IDs and would work well on smartphones and tablets.

Yahoo is one of the world's most-visited online properties, but revenue has declined in recent years amid competition from Google and Facebook.
Yahoo has also been beset by internal turmoil that has resulted in a revolving door of CEOs.

Mayer, 37, took over after a tumultuous period at Yahoo in which former CEO Scott Thompson resigned after less than six months on the job over a controversy about his academic credentials, and during which Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigned from the board and cut his ties with the company.

Yahoo's 2012 revenue was $5 billion. It has been flat year over year, off from some $6.3 billion in 2010.

Not pleased. I wasn't happy with the last site revamp that made it more difficult to read articles.

[Barrister]

Yahoo needs to go back to its original design - a giant categorized list of the entire internet.

[Phillip V]

I have not been to yahoo.com in over 8 years, but looking now for the first time, it looks clean and okay.

I assume yahoo still has millions of email users, including myself. Paid features such as security enhancements would be nice, as well as better junk mail filtering options.

[garbon]

I assume yahoo still has millions of email users, including myself. Paid features such as security enhancements would be nice, as well as better junk mail filtering options.

I'd miss out though on the Reese Witherspoon diet free trial offers.

[lustindarkness]

Yuck. I don't like change.

[Phillip V]

I assume yahoo still has millions of email users, including myself. Paid features such as security enhancements would be nice, as well as better junk mail filtering options.

I'd miss out though on the Reese Witherspoon diet free trial offers.

I have lately received emails from Beyonce Knowles and Ellen DeGeneres.

[Grey Fox]

Yahoo! sports still looks the same, good.

[garbon]

I liked that for a while my yahoo mail app was broken. Turned out that they'd revamped the app but there was no way for my kindle fire to properly upgrade me. Only found out when I deleted app and re-downloaded in frustration.

[lustindarkness]

What is it with the fat bold letters? Looks so cheap now.

[Josquius]

Ite very....um....I don't know the words really.....scrolly.
I note its not international and they maintain the same old design in Japan.
That's good, yahoo has always been a bit of a poster child for different regional tastes in web design, its traditional design being far more suited to Asian preferences.

[mongers]

Yahoo, wow I'd completely forgotten about that, signed in, oh that's what spam looks like. 

Found yahoo groups, all of those forums I used to read, now only inhabited by tumble weed.