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The giant Yahoo announced the biggest design makeover they have ever engaged on. To keep the users even more interested in yahoo, they now offer the visitors the ability to interact with their homepage at a level where they can use their Yahoo! Front page to access their Gmail account, or even to update their facebooks.
Linked thru widgets to more than 60 other external sites, the users now don’t need to leave yahoo.com to visit and interact with a lot other sites.

The design is openly based on Google’s iGoogle and the ways in which it can be personalized include the ability to save your favourites in your front page and have access to your Gmail account, facebook or check other external cool widgets. You can even edit your own front page layout and add your own website to the front page.

One of the advantages of this more futuristic design is that it is easier to navigate, while providing a lot more options. They have also cut wisely on the amount of advertising displayed in the front page. By taking out the “Marketplace” section, they got rid of several paying ads.

Starting Tuesday, USA users should start being able to enjoy all the changes, when they hit yahoo.com. The next countries that’ll able to see the changes first are the UK, next France and India, during the next week.
Check out this page for a preview on the new design and utilities.

Thousands of users have already beta tested this new version of Yahoo and the predicted time to launch the redesign in Spain and Mexico is somewhere next month but the yahoo.com mobile users will be able to see all the updates starting next week.

Tapan Bhat, Yahoo’s senior vice president of integrated consumer experiences, said that by early next year, this update should be available worldwide.