Yahoo to test its New Homepage - PakTribune

Yahoo to test its New Homepage - PakTribune: "Yahoo has begun quietly testing a makeover of its home page, as evidenced by trial mock-ups seen by some Web users over the past few weeks when they accessed the portal."

Yahoo! is stepping up to Google's announcement of it's 1GB storage space for it's Gmail users. They've announced that they'll give 100 MBs to their Yahoo! Mail users sometime this summer.

Yahoo! also recently revamped their Messenger Service to include the popular LAUNCHcast internet Radio and a Y! Search field at the bottom of it, something that's a new innovation when it comes to Instant Messaging.

They not too long ago also added a product search on their engine, a feature that mimics Google's product search Froogle. Yahoo's toolbar has for several months now included a "WebRank" that is an obvious knockoff of Google's PageRank, however, it acts more like Alexa's toolbar ranking in that it determines the ranking by aggregating Yahoo toolbar users' browsing patterns.

With these changes and others, Yahoo and Google are begining to look more like each other and are pounding out the way we interact with the web. A little competition here is very exciting...I'm liking the improvements on both sides.

Yahoo also rolled out today a new mail interface that matches its Messenger and that allows 10MB of email transfer and 100MB of storage. Thank goodness! I have been over my limit for several months. Kind of Yahoo! not to close that account. Kind of them to increase my storage to 100MB. Thanks Yahoo!