I guess I'd be surprised to come in here and find overwhelming praise for Yahoo :-) My wife uses Yahoo as her primary site for email/news etc. I took a quick lo

I guess I'd be surprised to come in here and find overwhelming praise for Yahoo :-) My wife uses Yahoo as her primary site for email/news etc. I took a quick look and think this update is substantially better. Honestly it does look "fresh" and "more intuitive" to me than before via an emphasis on a better design. One thing I've noticed with the media and financial world is that, when they've been critical of Marissa, it's been because she hasn't made a substantial, dramatic announcement about an all encompassing new strategy for Yahoo. I suspect that's because she doesn't have one and doesn't really need one. Yahoo still has a tremendous amount of popular services and traffic. Make it less of a laughing stock so you can retain good talent. Do some good acqui-hires so you can obtain new talent and just do good smart clean iterations like this. I think that's half the battle for them. The other half is hitching yourself to a growth engine around mobile or content.