In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo • Hacker News Board

Re: In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo

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Post by velodrome » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 5:06 AM UTC

mkl wrote: post #104

breckinloggins wrote: post #30

So given all the hubbub lately I decided to visit Yahoo.com for the first time in years. I'm not really Yahoo's target audience, but my second-first impressions are: - That little "Make Yahoo! your homepage" thing that slides down and moves the rest of the content with it has got to go (especially considering there's a "Make Y! your homepage" link RIGHT below it). - Clicking on the dot in the exclamation point still…

Curiously enough, the http://nz.yahoo.com page I got redirected to looks quite different and avoids many of the issues you point out.

The old Yahoo (US) page use to look like this. There may be a reason behind this. Maybe it is less bandwidth intensive (metered ISPs?).

Re: In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo

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Post by madrona » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 5:23 AM UTC

Yahoo's front page is 600kb and finishes rendering after about a second. Google is 17kb, and renders in a tenth of that. More Googlification awaits.

Re: In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo

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Post by adrianwaj » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 5:25 AM UTC

I bet she'll do nothing more than turn Yahoo into a well-organized and well-fed train wreck. She really needs to bet on something big, not just get people into nice lifeboats. Maybe Scott McNealy would've been a better hire.

Re: In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo

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Post by pbreit » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 5:43 AM UTC

breckinloggins wrote: post #30

So given all the hubbub lately I decided to visit Yahoo.com for the first time in years. I'm not really Yahoo's target audience, but my second-first impressions are: - That little "Make Yahoo! your homepage" thing that slides down and moves the rest of the content with it has got to go (especially considering there's a "Make Y! your homepage" link RIGHT below it). - Clicking on the dot in the exclamation point still…

NO LINK TO "MY YAHOO"!!! The only Yahoo service I still use.

Re: In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo

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Post by w1ntermute » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 5:44 AM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #85

ramanujan wrote: post #42

One strategy for Yahoo: Turn Google's strengths into weaknesses by opening up all of Yahoo's products (Search, Mail, Finance, Maps, Sports, News) to developers to be maximally programmable. Allow developers to monetize in any way they feel like (aside from fraud) and let them link together apps in creative mashups. This links together YQL, Yahoo Pipes, YUI, BOSS, and several other existing Yahoo technologies into Yah…

This would make a bunch of SEOs of my acquaintance absolutely giddy, because you could use e.g. Yahoo keyword data or the proprietary financial data which is just maddening to get one's hand on to create arbitrarily large data-heavy sites... to rank in Google.

The reason why that data isn't freely available probably has to do with the fact that it's proprietary.

Re: In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo

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Post by codeonfire » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 5:44 AM UTC

afhof wrote: post #2

A lot of the changes listed in this article are as the title suggests "Googley". I am not that surprised by these actions though. It's easy to get used to the free food and the Friday meetings and then miss them elsewhere. That said, if I was working at one of Yahoo's remote offices, I'd feel pretty left out of the free food / etc. Do HQ Engineers work any harder than the others?)

Well, who's to say they even have the facilities or personnel for free food at other locations? If it's an office with a break room it probably isn't set up to serve hundreds of meals a day.

Re: In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo

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Post by noamsml » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 5:47 AM UTC

iba wrote: post #65

I wonder if Marissa will try to maneuver Yahoo for a possible acquisition by Google.

I doubt it. If Mayer wanted to play second fiddle to Page, she'd have stayed at Google.

Re: In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo

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Post by huhtenberg » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 5:53 AM UTC

breckinloggins wrote: post #30

So given all the hubbub lately I decided to visit Yahoo.com for the first time in years. I'm not really Yahoo's target audience, but my second-first impressions are: - That little "Make Yahoo! your homepage" thing that slides down and moves the rest of the content with it has got to go (especially considering there's a "Make Y! your homepage" link RIGHT below it). - Clicking on the dot in the exclamation point still…

Would you look at that?

A "neat this, neat that, not too bad" review of a Yahoo homepage even though it's the exact same kaka as it was two weeks ago. Who would've thought that getting a notable ex-Googler on board would have a such immediate effect on swaying geeks in a pro-Yahoo direction?

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Of_Prometheus, you are hell-banned starting from this comment - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4268365

Re: In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo

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Post by Of_Prometheus » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 6:02 AM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #118

breckinloggins wrote: post #30

So given all the hubbub lately I decided to visit Yahoo.com for the first time in years. I'm not really Yahoo's target audience, but my second-first impressions are: - That little "Make Yahoo! your homepage" thing that slides down and moves the rest of the content with it has got to go (especially considering there's a "Make Y! your homepage" link RIGHT below it). - Clicking on the dot in the exclamation point still…

Would you look at that? A "neat this, neat that, not too bad" review of a Yahoo homepage even though it's the exact same kaka as it was two weeks ago. Who would've thought that getting a notable ex-Googler on board would have a such immediate effect on swaying geeks in a pro-Yahoo direction? --- Of_Prometheus, you are hell-banned starting from this comment - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4268365

I think you're misreading his comment, if you believe it was anything but critical and unbiased. I didn't read it as "pro-Yahoo", but fair.

Re: In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo

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Post by jaredsohn » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 6:04 AM UTC

Cushman wrote: post #77

antidoh wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"there's SO MUCH STUFF on the front page" I haven't been there for a long time, so I went there to follow your critique, and my first thought was WTF is all this? This is like a 90s site map, with pictures.

I also checked the site out for the first time in a while. My first thought: "This looks like AOL.com." But of course I haven't been to AOL in forever either, maybe they've changed. So I checked them out too. Yep, can't tell the difference.

In 2007, TechCrunch had an article showing that AOL and Yahoo even had the same page layout: http://techcrunch.com/2007/04/26/aol-one-step-behind-again-n...