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Bad UX killed Yahoo. Intrusive, animated advertisements and a cluttered home page are how I will always remember them. I often joke about how I test Internet co

by csmatt 14y ago

Bad UX killed Yahoo. Intrusive, animated advertisements and a cluttered home page are how I will always remember them. I often joke about how I test Internet connections by going to yahoo.com in the browser since no one goes there anymore and I won't be deceived by cache :P

neya 14y ago
Haha! I like the 'internet-testing' part :D
TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
In the US, perhaps. The "cluttered homepage" design is popular in Japan.
- jpatokal 14y ago
  It's not quite that simple: http://www.tofugu.com/2012/05/15/japanese-web-design-why-you-so-2003/ http://www.tofugu.com/2012/05/15/japanese-web-design-why-you...
  - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
    Thanks for that, that was quite enlightening.
sp332 14y ago
Yahoo isn't dead, they've been profitable. And their stock is up lately. https://www.google.com/finance?q=yahoo https://www.google.com/finance?q=yahoo
- Sami_Lehtinen 14y ago
  Yet you preferred Google Finance over Yahoo Finance?
  - neya 14y ago
    Haha! Brilliant point! Exactly!!
  - sp332 14y ago
    Just because you're not as big as freakin' Google doesn't mean you're hurting.