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My Yahoo! is a
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or
web portal A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displayi ...
which combines personalized
Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Mana ...
features, content feeds and information. The site was launched in 1996 and was one of the company's most popular creations.


Applications of My Yahoo

My Yahoo’s purpose is to have users personalize their pages. The appearance, layout and content of the main Yahoo homepage is standard, My Yahoo offers customization. On it users can apply themes, add sites, add widgets, rearrange the layout, and add tabs to the page. A MyYahoo page allows access to almost everything needed on one page. Applications and programs that allow access to social networking, Lottery numbers, a mail aggregator, a
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, gaming applications, etc... The goal is to give people access to everything they're interested in on a single page. Users are able to link to
Yahoo! Answers Yahoo! Answers was a community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) website or knowledge market owned by Yahoo! where users would ask questions and answer those submitted by others, and upvote them to increase their visibility. Questions were org ...
. Provides the option to link Yahoo Local. Enabling local search capabilities. In 2011, they created a
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RSS features

*Yahoo's personalized pages are less specialized than less popular sites. It is more stable *It is also one of the fastest RSS readers. *52% of MyYahoo users are aware of RSS tools and 39% use RSS tools. *Many websites have a “Add to MyYahoo” button to make adding an RSS feed to MyYahoo simpler.


Criticism

My Yahoo can't consolidate different feeds resulting in the need for multiple streams. Since the September 2013 redesign users have complained of numerous issues: #Font size is too large and cannot be changed #Applications are less configurable #Weather app uses auto-locate instead of remembering a specified place #Column resizing is no longer allowed #Forced inclusion of a large Yahoo search bar On 24 August 2017, many users reported that all RSS feeds stopped working.


See also

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iGoogle iGoogle (formerly Google Personalized Homepage) was a customizable Ajax-based start page or personal web portal launched by Google in May 2005. It was discontinued on November 1, 2013,Google SupportiGoogle's Decommission/ref> because the compan ...
* My Excite *
My Lycos Lycos, Inc., is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, web hosting, social networking, and entertainment websites. The company is based in Wal ...
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MSN MSN (meaning Microsoft Network) is a web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95. The Microsoft Net ...


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