Saturday, 22 March 2014

Yahoo launches new homepage for India


In a move geared toward return the bottom it earlier lost to competitors, Yahoo, on Friday, launched a fresh homepage in India and 5 alternative countries, as well as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.

The new Yahoo! Homepage permits users to additional simply to get the content they obtain The Hindu reportable, quoting IM Swaminathan, director, media product and business operations, India & South East Asia.

He added, this was the beginning part of the renaissance and also the plan was to form it fun and a daily habit.

The new homepage offered simple use at the side of a limitless content stream providing preferred stories. Users may make a choice from  'read', 'save for later' or 'delete'.

The homepage offers new utility apps like Yahoo! Weather, Finance and Flickr, as conjointly a seamless expertise across desktops, tablets and sensible phones.

Meanwhile, it's been nearly a year since the new homepage went sleep in the North American country.

According to Swaminathan, the philosophy was to induce it right for one market so scale it and replicate it across markets. He added, when it launched within the North American country, it went through multiple iterations.

Yahoo! has over 800 million users globally of that mobile net users structure [*fr1].

A salient feature of the new home page is endless scrolling, with the loading of reports stories happening mutually scrolled. Users needn't trouble concerning clicking for additional content. Users may examine on the native weather, horoscope, trending stories, Flickr photos, stocks and future birthdays (through Facebook sign-in).

The new homepage comes solely days when Yahoo deciding to to dam Facebook and Google sign-ins to use its services
According to Nitin Mathur, senior director and head of promoting, Yahoo India and Southeast Asia, the new Yahoo homepage boasted a cleaner look, was straightforward to use and allowed users to individualize the page to quickly notice stories they likeable.

He additional a team of editors picked prime stories, whereas Yahoo's algorithms showed the remainder of the stories supported what users had clicked.

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