Yahoo launches new home page, now with more Boing Boing!
We are delighted to see that the new Yahoo front door design (previously code-named Metro) has gone live today, with Boing Boing as one of the featured content partners. You can add Boing Boing, Boing Boing Gadgets, BB Video, and Offworld feeds to your My Yahoo home page with a couple of easy clicks. Woohoo, Yahoo! (Special thanks to the Yahoo team who added Boing Boing to the revamped mix.)
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Yeah, they use the wrong subtitle. It's A Directory of Wonderful Things, not The.
You dare defy The Google Overlords? The Wrath of Peyj-Rain King shall be down-loaded upon thy heads!
Alos, it would have been totally mind blowing if this post appeared in the screen grab above.
WOW! What's next?
A direct link in Google SERP?!
Congrats! I suppose. Yahoo was the best web index/web search site 20 years ago, when I first discovered the WWW, and it's been in a gradual decline ever since. To me it's seemed like Yahoo's homepage has become increasingly celebrity-news-centered in the last couple years, and distinctly less interesting to me. I don't even have it bookmarked anymore. But maybe that's just me.
Hopefully, this won't harm the culture of the comments on Boing Boing. I recall a Boing Boing post not long ago about an art student's invisible car. The comment thread quickly became unusable due to a slew of youtube-grade-literate anonymous comments. According to Antinous, this slew was the result of being listed on Yahoo.
So, I guess, congrats, and "what could possibly go wrong?" =D
We get listed on Yahoo quite often.
Who made that BB icon? It's cool.
@NoseHat,
You discovered Yahoo in 1989, five years before Yang and Filo even thought of it? I would sue!
@Gabrielm:
Ah, I guess I meant 20 years (+/- 10).
:)
Still, I stand by my point, even if I can't stand by my long term memory.
@noahpoah, look at the screengrab, it's already there sillyhead.
@ all who whine: get over it, Yahoo has been featuring our content on their home page frequently for some time. Just imagine, people linkint to Boing Boing and clicking on our articles -- the horror!
Xeni, I'd prefer my boingboing in an airtight, unlinkable seal where I can clikc through and read it in peace.
Stupid bloody.... people and their frivolous internet comments. *spits*
There's no whine here, I just think Yahoo should go the way of Excite, Altavista, Lycos, Hotbot, to some sort of 1998 Internet Wax Museum, and stay there. And take eBay and AOL with you. Not that competition with Google is bad, it's vital - but this is like comparing the iPhone to any piece of junk LG phone from 3 years ago.
Also, no issues with any of this stuff?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Yahoo!
"There's no whine here, I just think Yahoo should go the way of Excite, Altavista, Lycos, Hotbot, to some sort of 1998 Internet Wax Museum, and stay there."
Oh, the audacity of this large company with thousands of employees, millions of non-techie non-hipster eyeballs daily and a multibillion dollar market cap, guilty of being currently unfashionable and daring to hang around on your interbloggertubez long after you don't find them sufficiently trendy anymore. You poor thing.
@#10 Xeni:
Ha ha! I was speculating and hoping, not whining. This news brought to mind a specific comment thread which had gone to pot in a very uncharacteristic way for this site, and which your moderator attributed to it's being listed on Yahoo. I was stating my hope that this kind of comment thread washout wouldn't become more common. Maybe it won't?
At any rate, it's not that big a deal. This effect is only something that impacts Boing Boing's comment boards, not the blog content itself.
Some further thoughts about the comment board aspect of Boing Boing (not the blog aspect):
To a commercial comment board's owner, every visitor is a good visitor, and every page load is a good page load. It doesn't matter who they are or what they say; each new visit generates ad revenue. For the owner it's all about "volume, volume, volume!"
To a comment board's users, who the other visitors are matters a whole lot. This is obvious: It's how a user chooses one comment board community over another.
Like many things, the producer and the consumer are at cross purposes here.
Personally, I really love the community and conversations on Boing Boing's comment boards. This is currently my favorite general-interest online community. I appreciate the intelligence, the substance, the aesthetic taste, etc, of the comments here more frequently than I appreciate the comments on Fark or Digg or Youtube etc. This is due in (large) part to your wise and tireless moderators, but also to the community.
Will the Yahoo placement change this? It certainly did for the example I referenced in my first comment. But let's hope that's a fluke.
Doesn't seem to be there for me.
I see "Autos" where you have BB in your screencap.
I can't wait to see the Yahoo Answers brigade get involved in the comments section :)
@jtegnell, you have to opt in to the new yahoo UI, then you have to "add" BB as one of the content providers you'd like.
@nosehat, that's all sensible, I think your logic makes sense. Usually the threads where we get that noise are reasonably few and far between, when a BB post is actually featured right on the front door at Yahoo. I don't think this new partnership will mean tons more of that, you have to actually SIGN UP to get our material, and the responses are less likely to be fly-by stupidity.