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About a month ago, Yahoo launched the their new design and we decided to poll our audience asking if they liked the new design or not.
We had over 500 responses and the overwhelming majority of you guys disliked it.
First here is the before and after:
- 80% said they do not like the new Yahoo home page design
- 12% said they do like it
- 8% said they simply do not care
Forum discussion continued at WebmasterWorld.
This story was scheduled to be posted today and was not written today.
Comments:
Sam Dogen
03/27/2013 01:59 pm
Deep
Brandon
03/27/2013 04:16 pm
What don't SEOs like about it? Did they say anything in the comments that's worth summarizing?
Takeshi Young
03/27/2013 07:00 pm
People don't like change. The new design is still crowded, but it's an improvement with a more modern look.
Jawad Latif
03/28/2013 09:30 am
How can you say that votes were cast by SEOs as post title is 'Most SEOs Dislike Yahoo's New Home Page'?
David
03/28/2013 11:37 am
As said below, people don't like change, just as people are prob going to moan about the upcoming FB feed layout as well. Also would like to know what SEOs specifically don't like about it.Can anybody on here please enlighten us as to what they don't like? And on a sidenote, I think Yahoo should rather focus on maybe getting feedback as to what they can fix to improve UX and overall user-experience, rather than changing the homepage every couple of months.Because let's face it at this rate they are derailing at a very fast speed.At the end of the day you are designing for the user and not for yourself.
Dave
03/28/2013 06:33 pm
It is known that - every change faces some resistance, but things evolve this way. The new Yahoo! homepage was rolled out in phases, and probably after all required user studies. What I really like about the new design is - that I can customize the page according to my taste - Be it the apps, or the topics around which I expect the feeds. Reading this post that states that SEOs disliked this page, without any concrete reasons - sounds joke to me.
sir_wolf2001
03/30/2013 09:31 pm
I figure that since Yahoo keeps changing my home page without my permission/input....they don't need my business that badly afterall. You don't keep forcing a customer to take a product that they don't like, don't want and indeed never wanted in the first place, and then expect them to stay a customer. Oh and BTW changing the way that I sign in and having me do it through a separate company...just lost my business !
Soni Sharma
04/01/2013 05:08 am
Yahoo's New Home page really cool. I like it very much I am a SEO... It is more user friendly and attractive too.
johnie underwood
04/20/2013 01:02 am
Please return to the old home page. The way you setup the search is horrible. Can not see what you type in the search window.
Drew946
04/26/2013 01:17 am
Hate the new home page. The font size is to big and I can't adjust it for starters. I just stopped using Yahoo for everything. You should give people the CHOICE of using the new home page or not. Bye bye Yahoo.
Rafael Luik
05/20/2013 01:25 pm
You say like other sites don't do this...
Rafael Luik
05/20/2013 01:27 pm
I know: SEOs don't like the page because it's booming with content for users to click so they won't be using the search engine more than before to end up getting to their pages (that get them jobs). Of course a SEO dream would be a homepage with just a search field for the web so they can profit with their work!
deedeemao
06/18/2013 07:27 pm
I don't like the looks but I'm much more concerned about function. Everything is HIDDEN! So it takes up HOURS of my time t try to learn all the secret handshakes. To try to do spell check yahoo help tells me that if I cant see the task bar I must be in plain text. The it tells me to switch to rich text or whater, jus tclick the double arrows to the ruight of the subject. BUT THERE ARE NO DOUBLE ARROWS to the right of the subject!!!!!!!!!
deedeemao
06/18/2013 07:29 pm
User-friendly? This is sarcasm, right?
Yaw Ansong
07/17/2013 12:24 pm
Exactly. I can't understand all the hate. This is the best redesign ever!
nickel
08/19/2013 01:04 pm
I accepted the Homepage change and the mail change. But when they "Upgraded" my yahoo mail and deleted all of the old e-mail addresses that I didn't use WITHOUT my permission. Thats it I'm done no more Yahoo for me.
nickel
08/19/2013 01:12 pm
You obviously work for them.
Jgb979
08/28/2013 04:31 am
The never ending stream of nonsense links is by far the worst change of many. You click on one article about the Nintendo wii and you'll be reading about it on a daily basis for eternity. Most of the links provided are complete junk sites/ reposting ap articles verbatim. And for the love of god WHY does every story come with an unnecessary video? I don't need someone to read the story back to me. Open to suggestions on an improved home page.
Ocean View
10/15/2013 06:58 pm
It is because it will make Yahoo more money. When money is involved, and a lot of it, do not expect that even if 98% of the populous hate the new format, that it will entice Yahoo to abandon THEIR corporate profit mission. Yahoo has NEVER reverted back to any former version of area of their applications.
steve
10/19/2013 12:34 am
I have had it!!! ... first- the idiots who created the fiasco with firefox becoming the world's worst browser in the world with v24.whatever!, bypassing microsoft IE by leaps and bounds, don't get it!. So now, yahoo decides to revamp their homepage! .... to "make It better" with a new and "improved" version. NOT! NOT! NOT!!! It is so ugly!!! So I switched to iGoogle (not that it's any better than Yahoo, but tolerable) for a home page. What do these idiots do- they're cancelling it! So what's left? Not a whole lot from what I have found- just the same ol' cluster you-know-what. Does anybody out there with half a sense of good design know-how to design a better and outstanding homepage site? My god! ... their is fantastic talent out there that can blow the socks off Yahoo past and present, google, and some of the other rinky-dink replacements I've managed to find that are even worse! It amazes me that those with 6-figure incomes employed at these creations, are producing this crap! ... when the best talent out there, for have the wage- can do a far better and outstanding job. Please !... something has got to change. I can't stand going online any more. Please give the world something extraordinary and innovative! Please kill (fire) the culture of mediocrity!
Jack
11/19/2013 08:19 pm
I hate the new Yahoo homepage its crap