Yahoo to give home page a makeover. After holding on to the same basic framework for seven years, the Web portal is hoping to court advertisers with a redesign, according to sources. [CNET News.com]
Alas, poor Yahoo. I don't use Yahoo anymore. I used to use Yahoo frequently. They were different from their competitors Excite, Lycos, and others I can't remember now, because they had the most complete and easy to use directory. I think they would have done much better to stick with a business focused on a directory. They could have done that without the conflict inherent in a business that also offers it's own content. But in the late 1990s, it was the popular thing to do to acquire lots of other web companies, which is what Yahoo did.
There is an alternative to Yahoo's directory. It's the Open Directory Project.
Posted by Doug Sauder at June 8, 2002 12:56 PM