Yahoo Directory drops off the home page
July 17, 2006TechCrunch » Blog Archive » New Yahoo Home Page Goes Live Today
If you visit www.yahoo.com today (17 Jul 06) you can see the new and slick redesign of one of the Web’s most popular and important home pages. (Note: This was posted in the week that MySpace became America’s #1 site).
If you want to see directories, you have to navigate using the “More Yahoo Services” link before the categories show up. This is a far cry from the original Yahoo (link from archive.org). In some ways, this is a sad day. The original Yahoo (later renamed Directories) was the first search that many of us used in the mid 1990s. This was before the modern spider-based approach first popularised by AltaVista, Lycos and HotBot took over, and long before Google ruled the roost.
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I’m actually looking at the Yahoo homepage today (26th July) and the web directory is on the front page, underneath the “Buzz log – What the web is searching for”. So it’s still there, just less important than it used to be.
How wierd, I still don’t see it when I visit. I wonder if they customise the page based on a profile.
I’m going to start using categories for a while and see whether it appears.