[WEB4LIB] Re: Yahoo 10th anniversary

Peter Scott scott at lights.com
Wed Mar 2 18:30:13 EST 2005


> Darryl Friesen wrote:
> 
> >>Pretty amusing to check out the 1995 version:
> >>http://promo.yahoo.com/birthday10/incorporation/
> > 
> > 
> > The thing I find amusing is that I wish Yahoo were still like that.  There's 
> > about 10% of the current Yahoo that I find useful (the directory and search 
> > box).  The rest is just ads, useless news and clutter.  There's a reason the 
> > Google home page looks the way it does.

Now that Yahoo has RSS feeds for its directory, which can be read as plain 
text, it's a bit like going back to '95...

http://dir.yahoo.com/rss/dir/index.php




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