(with appropriate apologies to the Peggy Lee song)
Have you looked at the Yahoo! Home Page lately – say the last few months? There was a day not so many months ago, before they “upgraded” their content, when the homepage was a decent portal into the majority of topics I had any interest in. It’s been my own “homepage” almost since I started surfing the web, for that very reason.
Do you also use Yahoo! as your first stop online?
Anyway, it’s puzzling to me how a page full of topics and even subtopics ranging from Science to Music, with stops along the way for Sports, Art, Photography, Ancestry, Religion, Personal Pages, Weather, yadda, yadda, has now been drilled down to the key areas of internet concern: Featured, Entertainment, Sports, and Life.
Does that cover it for you? Is that all you care to hear about?
What happened to Yahoo!'s effort to be all things to all people and the resulting “lowest common denominator” approach to access to the web?
The only thing I ever use Yahoo for is to get into the financial page and look at stock quotes and such. The funny thing is, the other day I wanted an alternative, but damned if I could think of one. The Internet used to be full of these portals, and I don’t doubt some are still around, but Yahoo was the only living one I could think of. Maybe that means they’re doing something right.
I’m not sure I understand the OP’s concern. The sidebar menu on the left is a huge list: Autos, Finance, Games, Geocities, Groups, HotJobs, Maps, Movies, Music, Personals, Photos, Real Estate, Shopping, Sports, Tech, Travel, TV, and Yellow Pages. Seems like it covers everything to me. That said, Yahoo! isn’t what I would use as a homepage either. For some time now I’ve had a personalized Google homepage. You can choose modules that suit your tastes - and they have modules out the wazoo.
All true. Maybe I should have stressed that the News section is reduced to those four categories in the OP. Getting recent news in other categories requires drilling down on your own.