My Yahoo

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My Yahoo!
Developer(s) Yahoo
Initial releaseJuly 15, 1996;28 years ago (1996-07-15) [1]
Platform Web browsers
Type Web Gadgets
Website my.yahoo.com

My Yahoo! was a start page or web portal that combined personalized Yahoo! features, content feeds, and information. The site was launched in 1996 [2] and was one of the company's most popular creations. [3] It was discontinued in December 2024 amid words of protest among users. [4]

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Applications of My Yahoo

My Yahoo’s purpose was to have users personalize their pages. [5]

The appearance, layout, and content of the main Yahoo homepage was standard, but My Yahoo offered customization. [6] On it, users could apply themes, add sites, add widgets, rearrange the layout, and add tabs to the page. [7]

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... [8] 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. [9]

Provided the option to link Yahoo Local. Enabled local search capabilities. [10]

In 2011, they created a mobile app. [11]

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

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:

  1. Font size was too large and couldn't be changed
  2. Applications were less configurable
  3. Weather app used auto-locate instead of remembering a specified place
  4. Column resizing was no longer allowed
  5. Forced inclusion of a large Yahoo search bar

On 24 August 2017, many users reported that all RSS feeds stopped working. [16] [17] [18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Yahoo! Inc. - Company Timeline". Wayback Machine . 2008-07-13. Archived from the original on 2008-07-13. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
  2. ↑ "Yahoo! Inc. - Company Timeline". Wayback Machine . 2008-07-13. Archived from the original on 2008-07-13. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
  3. ↑ Hansell, Saul (1999-10-31). "On My...yahoo; David Filo". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ "MSN". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  5. ↑ Kanalley, Craig (2013-02-21). "Yahoo Homepage Goes Social With Facebook-Personalized Streams". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
  6. ↑ "Difference between Yahoo! homepage and My Yahoo!". Yahoo. Retrieved 2014-04-13.
  7. ↑ "Overview of My Yahoo". Yahoo. Retrieved 2014-04-13.
  8. ↑ "My Yahoo! Blog". My Yahoo. Archived from the original on 2013-05-02. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
  9. ↑ Marc (2007-07-07). "The Only 7 Things Yahoo Does Better than Google". Marc and Angel Hack Life. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
  10. ↑ Marc (2007-07-07). "The Only 7 Things Yahoo Does Better than Google". Marc and Angel Hack Life. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
  11. ↑ "My Yahoo! Blog". My Yahoo. Archived from the original on 2013-05-02. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
  12. ↑ Nations, Daniel. "Using MyYahoo as an RSS Reader". About.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-11. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
  13. ↑ Nations, Daniel. "Using MyYahoo as an RSS Reader". About.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-11. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
  14. ↑ Grossnickle, Joshua. "RSS—Crossing into the Mainstream" (PDF). marketingsherpa.com. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
  15. ↑ "QUICK TIPS: Quickly browse sites with MyYahoo!'s RSS parser (Mac OS X 10.1 and later)" (Document). PorQuest Computing. ProQuest   191126992.
  16. ↑ "No RSS feeds loading". Yahoo! Help Coimmunity. Yahoo!. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  17. ↑ "RSS feeds not working: Forbes and Wired". Yahoo! Help Community. Yahoo!. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  18. ↑ "RSS Feeds". Yahoo! Help Community. Yahoo!. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
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