Yahoo! Upgrades with a new look

Over the past few weeks (and even months) we have heard an awful lot about Google and Microsoft’s Bing! Some may argue that we have in fact neglected the familiar Yahoo! Today though Yahoo! made their own announcement that they are having a re-design of their home page. The page is now to have 3^rd party links – what this means to you and me is that we will be able to customise the panel down the left hand side of the pages and we can visit these sites without leaving the Yahoo! homepage.

You can also customise the news section for stories that will be more relevant to your interests. You may also chose to have search queries filtered and only display results from limited sites such as Wikipedia or Amazon. Yahoo! have promised fewer of their own products will be displayed.

The changes were rolled out yesterday in the US and throughout the rest of the international sites during the coming week. The launch has been brought forward some months as it was initially scheduled for later in the year. Could this be the result of the ongoing negotiations between Yahoo and Microsoft over integrating their services?

I doubt very much it will be such a dramatic change as we saw with Bing but I may be pleasantly surprised.

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