# New Yahoo Design
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 13, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760 "2004-08-13T22:52:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/1 "2004-08-13T22:52:03Z")
I don’t like the new Yahoo design. It dosen’t suck or anything. It just lacks a certain boldness the design just before this new one had.
Before:
[http://web.archive.org/web/20040813155052/http://ww.yahoo.com/](http://web.archive.org/web/20040813155052/http://ww.yahoo.com/)
After:
> **[Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](https://www.yahoo.com/)**
>
> Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!
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### Author:  [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2004, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/2 "2004-08-13T22:55:52Z")
Looks the same to me. Firefox 0.9.2.
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### Author:  [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/3 "2004-08-13T22:57:40Z")
Am I being whooshed? Looks the same on MSE.
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### Author:  [@Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/4 "2004-08-13T23:23:30Z")
It definitly looks different on my computer. The new page even says:
> [@](#):
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> \*\*We are testing a test front page. \*\*Please send us your **feedack.**
There should be a box with rounded corners on the new page for “Yahoo Services” and the search bar is very different… There is no longer a drop down box instead there are links above (more like Google.) And many other changes.
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### Author:  [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/5 "2004-08-13T23:47:34Z")
Looks the same on Maxthon, too.
Sam
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/6 "2004-08-13T23:54:42Z")
Maybe the new test page only shows up on occassion, for random visitors. eBay did something similar a while back.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/7 "2004-08-13T23:56:35Z")
Looks the same on Mozilla.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/8 "2004-08-14T00:01:30Z")
People still use Yahoo? What for?
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### Author:  [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/9 "2004-08-14T00:17:05Z")
[Here you go](http://news.com.com/Yahoo+tests+new+home+page/2100-1038_3-5228698.html#).
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/10 "2004-08-14T00:25:02Z")
> [@Giraffe](#):
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> People still use Yahoo? What for?
I think it’s a great mail system, and it synchs contacts, calendar, and even notes wonderfully with Outlook.
And the interface should be even better when they implement Oddpost’s code.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/11 "2004-08-15T05:30:52Z")
> [@Giraffe](#):
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> People still use Yahoo? What for?
My question is why is the graphics creator for CNET (see Garfield226’s link) using the MSN browser?
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/12 "2004-08-15T15:47:21Z")
> [@Kel Varnsen - Latex Division](#):
>
> It definitly looks different on my computer. The new page even says:
>
> There should be a box with rounded corners on the new page for “Yahoo Services” and the search bar is very different… There is no longer a drop down box instead there are links above (more like Google.) And many other changes.
Yeah…it looks different to me. One’s tabbed, the other’s not. But the difference is fairly subtle, so I don’t think most people would even notice it. I sure as hell wouldn’t unless you gave me the pages side by side. I don’t see this “Yahoo Services” rounded corners, though.
Anyhow, I like the search bar on the new page better.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/13 "2004-08-15T22:41:21Z")
It still lacks focus, it’s still hard to find anything, it’s still overrun with advertising.
It may be ‘different’ but it’s certainly no improvement.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/14 "2004-08-15T23:43:44Z")
I wonder if there’s way to force the new page, I’m curious.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/15 "2004-08-16T03:40:15Z")
> [@Revtim](#):
>
> I wonder if there’s way to force the new page, I’m curious.
Do you really get the same page from both links?
On the first page (from [archive.org](http://archive.org)), the search bar is not tabbed, but has a pull-down menu (on the Web/in the News/Images/etc…)
On the second page (the current one), the search bar has tabs that read: Web, Images, Yellow Pages, News, Products.
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### Author:  [@AzRaek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AzRaek)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2004, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/16 "2004-08-17T06:35:58Z")
This must be the reason chat rooms in Yahell have been frozen all summer.
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### Author:  [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2004, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/17 "2004-08-17T09:51:28Z")
Oooh, boo fucking hoo, a web page wants to update? shit! let’s all cry for the way it works fine as an e-mail service and they gave us 100meg storage for nowt.
Find something more worthwhile to bitch about for fucks sake. Like how dogshit Hotmail is or something.
Oh, and get this, some people _don’t give a fuck about G-Mail_
Bitchy bitch bitch. I’m going to cry two tears out of one eye about this.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2004, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yahoo-design/259760/18 "2004-08-17T11:22:47Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Do you really get the same page from both links?
>
> On the first page (from [archive.org](http://archive.org)), the search bar is not tabbed, but has a pull-down menu (on the Web/in the News/Images/etc…)
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> On the second page (the current one), the search bar has tabs that read: Web, Images, Yellow Pages, News, Products.
Not exactly the same page, the ads are different and some of the links are different, but the search bar is identical. Pull-down menu on both links, no tabs.