New Beta Design at Yahoo.com

http://new.search.yahoo.com

Ahhh, following Google's minimalist approach huh?

an improvement

Although this is nice, i don't see them changing over to this as their main site. For a start, this have been around for ages. If you do a search from the home page, up the top for a long long time there has been a link called "search home", this is the exact design, and has been for ages.

I agree, Yahoo is not a Search Engine, it is more of a Search Portal, so they will most likely keep the homepage design as it is.

Looks nice.

Whats the best way to improve your ranking on Yahoo? Other than ppc?

Clare

Yahoo and MSN seem more of straight SEO to rank high. I know that Yahoo has the beta popularity bar out there. Right now, I do straight SEO with a good description tag and it seems to work well.

The new beta is now live...

I agree with Votefunk...yahoo is like taking candy from a baby!

It responeds to all the basics of seo...although I notice something interesting. I have a site that has no outgoing links and only a few incomming links...it's a small site with only about 10 pages...they all link together from the menus and the page footers...it ranks #4 for the chosen keyphrase...which is moderatley competitive...could be a soft spot in the algo or maybe a mom and pop type filter opposite of google authority site thingy. The site is not in the top 1000 for the same keyphrase in google