My Yahoo
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Applications of My Yahoo
My Yahoo’s purpose was to have users personalize their pages.[4]
The appearance, layout, and content of the main Yahoo homepage was standard, but My Yahoo offered customization.[5] On it, users could apply themes, add sites, add widgets, rearrange the layout, and add tabs to the page.[6]
A My Yahoo page allowed access to almost everything needed on one page. For example, applications and programs that allowed access to social networking, Lottery numbers, a mail aggregator, a news aggregator, gaming applications, etc...[7] The goal was to give people access to everything they were interested in on a single page.
Users were able to link to Yahoo! Answers.[8]
Provided the option to link Yahoo Local. Enabled local search capabilities.[9]
In 2011, they created a mobile app.[10]
In 2024, Yahoo! announced that My Yahoo! will be shut down and will be replaced with a new service without RSS feeds. The shutdown appears to have taken effect as of December 11, 2024.
RSS features
- Yahoo's personalized pages are less specialized than less popular sites. It is more stable[11]
- It is also one of the fastest RSS readers.[12]
- 52% of My Yahoo users are aware of RSS tools and 39% use RSS tools.[13]
- Many websites had an “Add to My Yahoo” button to make adding an RSS feed to My Yahoo simpler.[14]
Criticism
My Yahoo couldn't consolidate different feeds resulting in the need for multiple streams.
Since the September 2013 redesign, users had complained of numerous issues:
- Font size was too large and couldn't be changed
- Applications were less configurable
- Weather app used auto-locate instead of remembering a specified place
- Column resizing was no longer allowed
- Forced inclusion of a large Yahoo search bar
On 24 August 2017, many users reported that all RSS feeds stopped working.[15][16][17]
See also
References
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