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Portalization
May 17, 2004
I took a screenshot of the Yahoo homepage and greyed out the areas that wouldn't exist if Google duplicated the same layout and filled it with its corresponding features.
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I think you forgot to gray out the movies section in the lower right hand nav
Drue
Aah… But Google’s done it pretty neatly, haven’t they?
Thank the lord you don’t work at Google’s UI division ;-)
Jeremy Zawodny
Did I miss the My Google announcement?
Anil
There is an entertainment on Google news, and obviously this is subjective, so I considered that equivalent to the movies page.
I was counting the Google Account stuff (used to log in to the developer contest, Gmail, and other stuff) as the first vestiges of My Google.
Even if you take those pieces out, it’s still a remarkable advancement from “we only do search”.
Andrew
I suppose “More Yahoo…” corresponds with “more »” on Google?
margaret
this is actually one of the (many) reasons i prefer google to yahoo. when i go to the google main page, i know what to do with it. there’s a big box i use to search (placed helpfully right in the middle, making it easier for me to use google’s main function), a few helpful links for news or image search, helpfully placed links for learning more about google… you get the idea. the yahoo main page is such a mass of links and random information that i would literally have to learn how to use it- it would take me time to figure out how to use it effectively. google doesn’t have this learning time, which is one reason i like it better.
Anonymous
I have little doubt that Google will do my.google.com. I don’t see the point in turing this into a Google “gotcha!”. Google’s expertise is not search, it’s large-scale system development. Let them proceed.
Duque
Heh heh. That is pretty cool. I still use Yahoo for my homepage. I have a love hate relationship with their news sections on the start page.
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