Analysis of Yahoo’s new Home Page, gives you the comfort of several web services without leaving the Yahoo page.

Yahoo has just just unveiled its new Home Page for Beta Testers. The page is dynamic, innovativatively though out offering from Yahoo. The Yahoo homepage is one of the most popular start pages on the Internet and Yahoo in its endeavor to retain that edge from iGoogle, has offered a user experence that is several notch superior from competitors. The standard start page remains untouched as of now but it is possible to point the web browser to yahoo.com/trynew to experience and test the new start page. Opening the url will redirect to another Yahoo url (http://m.www.yahoo.com/) that cannot be accessed directly as it is probably checking a cookie or referrer to decide whether to display the new or old start page.

Current Yahoo Page

New Yahoo Page

Feature Sets

Message and Email snippets on Home Page

In new versions most notable changes are:

- Most arears are above the fold and header is thinner
- Probably the biggest change is the possibility to highly customize the home page
- Your bookmarks can be added to the left Navigation page
- Popular services like Facebook or MySpace have been added and you can add more services like AOL Mail, eBay, Flickr, Gmail or the New York Times to the menu
- Snippets and updates are pulled from these servicesby by logging into your respective accounts on these services

The Yahoo! gameplan seems to stay on their home page for longer duration by letting them use most of t let the user remain tweaked to their to keep getting updates of all updates on web.