Yahoo! trying to reinvent itself
Web pages, long cluttered with low-brow ads, were redesigned to highlight news of interest to visitors along with feeds of what is getting attention online.
"Designed to be more intuitive and personal, the new Yahoo! experience is all about the customers interests and preferences," Mayer said in a blog post.
"Yahoo! has always been about bringing you the very best of the web. And, today, we're introducing a new, more modern experience to do just that," she said.
Mayer took over in July at Yahoo! after 13 years at Google, where she was hired as the 20th employee and was also the first woman engineer at the company.
Shortly after taking over at Yahoo!, Mayer expressed a vision to "make the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining."
Mayer joined Yahoo! as its fifth chief executive there in as many years as the struggling Internet search pioneer tried to reinvent itself as a "premier digital media" company after withering in Google's shadow.
Mayer has echoed the mantra of predecessors who maintained that the company could be more prosperous by mining information about users to tailor online content and target money-making advertising.
Yahoo! in 2009 began letting Bing handle the labor-intensive job of finding and indexing content on the Internet, freeing itself to concentrate on interesting or personalised ways to present results.
The re-designed Yahoo! pages rolled out in the United States on Wednesday (20 February) and are a step along the path directed by Mayer.
"Whether you are a sports fan or entertainment buff, you can easily customise your newsfeeds," Mayer said.
Yahoo! websites have also been optimised for access from smartphones or tablet computers, according to Mayer, who added that online services have been made faster through "under-the-hood improvements."
Source: AFP via I-Net Bridge
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