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 Screenshot of My Yahoo! on June 22, 2020. | |
| Developer(s) | Yahoo |
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| Initial release | July 15, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-07-15)[1] |
| Platform | Web browsers |
| Type | Web Gadgets |
| Website | my |
My Yahoo! was astart page orweb portal that combined personalizedYahoo! features, content feeds, and information. The site was launched in 1996[2] and was one of the company's most popular creations.[3] It was discontinued in December 2024 amid words of protest among users.[4]
My Yahoo’s purpose was to have users personalize their pages.[5]
The appearance, layout, and content of the main Yahoo homepage was standard, but My Yahoo offered customization.[6] On it, users could apply themes, add sites, add widgets, rearrange the layout, and add tabs to the page.[7]
A My Yahoo page allowed access to almost everything needed on one page. For example, applications and programs that allowed access to social networking, Lottery numbers, a mail aggregator, anews aggregator, gaming applications, etc...[8] The goal was to give people access to everything they were interested in on a single page.
Users were able to link toYahoo! Answers.[9]
Provided the option to linkYahoo Local. Enabled local search capabilities.[10]
In 2011, they created amobile app.[11]
In 2024, Yahoo! announced that My Yahoo! will be shut down and will be replaced with a new service without RSS feeds. The shutdown appears to have taken effect as of December 11, 2024.
My Yahoo couldn't consolidate different feeds resulting in the need for multiple streams.
Since the September 2013 redesign, users had complained of numerous issues:
On 24 August 2017, many users reported that allRSS feeds stopped working.[16][17][18]
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