Yahoo is the wet fart of the internet world: full of anticipation but always a let down.

I've had that Yahoo home page for the last couple of weeks and I thought that everyone had it. Initially, I wanted the old home page back, but I've gotten used to things popping up if you mouseover too long.

New Y! home page looks very interesting and actually pretty fun, though it will be interesting to see the reactions of the less tech savy when that giant modal windows opens up. If it's easier to configure than iGoogle, I could easily see myself using it.

@Barnaby "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Just sayin.

I an access everything Yahoo! except my email.

My problem with Yahoo is that every-time they come out with something I like they close it down or sell it off. Photo and Music for example. It's a pain uploading photo's all over the place when you have slow upload speed. The home page is kind of looking at the weekly ad for BestBuy, is the circus in town. haha.

Really? Simplicity? There's a huge friggin' Quaker Oats add taking up half the screen - how is that improvement? Sure, it's better than the existing Y! page. But it's far from clean and simple. Classic iGoogle for me.

Personally I don't like cross-application use - I don't trust Google or Yahoo or whomever with my Facebook credentials, just like I don't trust Facebook with my Gmail credentials. I already use Gmail and Greader, so I feel it's more natural to have those integrated into my iGoogle page since it's all the same family.

As for the gadgets, you think you'll have to rely any less on the tech-heads to make interesting Yahoo widgets? Average users aren't going to throw together widgets or gadgets or whathaveyou no matter what. They will always choose from preselected ones, no matter how "easy" it is to use.

Just my $.02.

Yahoo's home page is awesome if you like more advertisements than actual content. Meh....no thanks.

good idea yahoo but you're a few years too late. just give up and sell to microsoft please.

Can't use Yahoo at work. Everytime someone does, they are knocked off the network for a while by automated protection software. This makes me wonder what they are really trying to do in the background. Yahoo is the ONLY company that this happens to and no, the software is not set to specifically block Yahoo.

Recently, Yahoo advised members who had Yahoo 360 personal pages they were closing that area and members had to move their page contents to the new location. I did that - all content was moved. But -- there is still no evident way to actually link your personal page to your yahoo home page!

Yahoo has always been like this - creating features without finishing the last step. Yahoo is a house built in the wilderness with no access roads.

I think most people reading this could turn Yahoo into a success within six months- it's that simple. But those running Yahoo are too busy counting their money, they don't have the one hour it would take to fix the stupid mistakes.

I think Yahoo has a winner here. Just a quick peek but I was impressed with the ease of adding things to the favorites. And I believe they may have a good, reasonably effectvie, but not bothersome way of making the thing pay, too, which is critical if you want to 'live long and prosper'.

After all the negative feedback I can't find much to add, the Local "Yahoo7" service I get is abysmal. Logging in to check my MAIL is a major pain, once I disable Fx addons, Adblock & NoScript I can see something on the page other than purple hyperlinks.

"Yahoo is the wet fart of the internet world: full of anticipation but always a let down." Comment #1 really made my day so this Yahoo stuff was of some use after all.

Google Apps are always in beta, I don't think it's fair to say Yahoo is the only one with "works in progress"; the thing is Google apps work, how's Gmail for instance, beta for well over a year, but my favourite Email provider by far, I have nothing to hide.

It was not surprise to any of us, as we use Google on a daily basis.

When I first saw it yesterday, I hated it. Looking today, I can see where I might not only get used to it, but might even like it.

Yahoo's problem is that they are constantly changing things without apparent user feedback BEFORE they make changes and apparently have a perverse change model to mess with the things we LIKE and not the things we HATE.

The new yahoo page is very annoying with all the rollover popups and useless apps... most people only use yahoo for the news and a basic email link. They don't even use search anymore after the addition of the frustrating yahoo search assistant which keeps popping up like bad penny no matter what you do to try and make it disappear.

I stopped using yahoo as my home page the day the new page was forced on everyone...