Yahoo enters the browser wars
Spotted via Guillaume and Search Engine Watch the new Yahoo! product line: Yahoo! Go
The product line continues to target the desktop (after the good start made with the aquisition of Konfabulator - now Yahoo! Widget Engine) but also goes to new areas like TV and mobile.
What Guillaume missed from the screenshot is that beside a Vista like sidebar (or Google Sidebar), Yahoo! Go Desktop features a nice browser window with Yahoo shortcuts. This might be the work of the XUL hackers wanted on the Jeremy Zawodny blog last year (It has tabs and I bet a one month payment that is not IE based).
The time I am writing this post the apps are not available for download but Search Engine Watch says:
The suite will be formally announced by Yahoo CEO Terry Semel at CES keynote today
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2 Responses to “Yahoo enters the browser wars”
By Guillaume on Jan 7, 2006 | Reply
dont worry I didn’t miss the browser part i was just interested in the dashboard thing. yahoo entered the browser thing about 5 years ago BTW… I dont think this release is very important and will have an impact on other browsers. However i’ll sure install it
By Razvan Antonescu on Jan 7, 2006 | Reply
Hmmm I know what u are speakin about
Had it from you, but this time I think it’s a different story. That was a customization of IE