Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Bookmarking this for an eventual classroom discussion about site design... CNet News.com has retrospective pictures of Yahoo!'s home page "look" over the past dozen years, including the ones topped by the three nameplates at the left. How time flies...
"Yahoo has made several incremental changes to its home page over the years, but it has held on to the same basic framework since 1994," says News.com.
One of my favorite geek trivia questions is still "What does the acronym 'YAHOO' stand for?"
As for Yahoo's content, here's an "old media" angle from Editors Weblog (emphasis added), drawing on several European news sources:
The consequences of Yahoo's new homepage for newspapers.
The world's most popular Internet company, Yahoo has previewed a
redesigned webpage that focuses on providing its users with
personalized information and the creation of "social search." Instead
of only seeing a universal website, users will be able to customize
Yahoo's homepage and their searches will be based on the "collective
wisdom of its users." With such innovations, Yahoo is (unconsciously?)
aiming for the throat of newspapers, but at the same time, is going to
depend on them. (more...)
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