Is Yahoo trying to take over the internet?

[Brendi]

Before I go through the hassle of changing all my Yahoo email addresses over to gmail or another email provider, does anyone know how to stop Yahoo from sending me back to THEIR homepage after viewing my Yahoo email? I have Google set as my homepage, so why do I keep getting sent back to Yahoo afterwards?

Yes, I know, it may seem kind of petty, but Yahoo kept changing their format and I was tired of it, had to search around to see where to sign in & sign out, which is why I switched browsers.

Brendi

[JunkMale]

You mean the homepage as in what you land on when you type in yahoo.com?

I never get a problem with it, I always end up back at the email page.

What browser are you using?

Although I do agree that the new format is over the top, annoying with pop up windows for rolling over a link that your going to click etc... I have emailed them about the lack of thought for the people using their site recently and in the past with some success on kicking butt in to place like reality...

[opifex]

Is Yahoo trying to take over the internet?
The answer is yes... with a little help from their friends at M$.
I've basically dumped my yahoo, rocketmail and hotmail accounts... they are still active for the time being until I can be sure that there are no stragglers in my contacts.

[JunkMale]

Don't for get that they went Yahoogle or googlhoo for a while...

[andr105]

Don't worry! Yahoo will never succeed in competing with Google by the level of popularity! Google will always remain the best:)

[Brendi]

JunkMale, the scenario is this: I use Google for my chosen homepage. It is saved as so in my Internet Options. I go to Yahoo to check my yahoo email. When I sign out of my Yahoo email, I get taken back to Yahoo's main page, and not Google's. It's not a big problem or anything like that. I just don't like it when I'd rather be taken to what I choose as MY homepage and not what is somehow decided for me.

Brendi

[NogDog]

JunkMale, the scenario is this: I use Google for my chosen homepage. It is saved as so in my Internet Options. I go to Yahoo to check my yahoo email. When I sign out of my Yahoo email, I get taken back to Yahoo's main page, and not Google's. It's not a big problem or anything like that. I just don't like it when I'd rather be taken to what I choose as MY homepage and not what is somehow decided for me.

Brendi
That does not really have anything to do with your browser home page, it's just what Yahoo has chosen as the "landing page" for a logout action on their site. If you log out on this site, you go to a specific landing page with links for going back to where you were or to the forum home page. If you log out of FaceBook you go to the FaceBook home/sign-up page. I don't see how Yahoo going to its home page when you log out is any different. Of course, if you feel any of those log out actions should have redirected you to your selected browser home page, well, I suspect you'll be disappointed by the log out result on most sites. Heck, there's probably somebody out there who would feel the opposite: they'd complain if a logout did redirect them to their browser's home page. :)

[opifex]

It's all marketing... hook 'm and keep 'em.
That's like when I check my hotmail accounts. If I sign out I get redirected to a splash advising me to download IE8 (a special version for prodigy Mexico) because I'm using a different browser. You'd think that they would do an OS check along with the browser check... I use Linux.
Once Chrome and Chromium are stable will gmail hit us with an ad suggesting that we download their browser if we aren't using it? Maybe.

[Brendi]

That does not really have anything to do with your browser home page, it's just what Yahoo has chosen as the "landing page" for a logout action on their site. If you log out on this site, you go to a specific landing page with links for going back to where you were or to the forum home page. If you log out of FaceBook you go to the FaceBook home/sign-up page. I don't see how Yahoo going to its home page when you log out is any different. Of course, if you feel any of those log out actions should have redirected you to your selected browser home page, well, I suspect you'll be disappointed by the log out result on most sites. Heck, there's probably somebody out there who would feel the opposite: they'd complain if a logout did redirect them to their browser's home page. :)

I understand why my browser goes back to Yahoo's page, but I wish it didn't. Of course it wouldn't make sense for it not to. After all, I am using THEIR stuff. But the main reason that I tried to change anything away from Yahoo was that they kept changing the layout of their main page Yahoo.com. I had to keep searching for where to login & logout of my email. Yep, I'm picky. :)

Brendi

[criterion9]

You could avert the whole yahoo.com landing page by going to mail.yahoo.com instead. I don't think they've been changing that page much at all in the last few years.

[Freejack]

They do change the pictures :)

I use the mail.yahoo.com as my bookmark to their mail services. Then when I need to check my mail, I click the bookmark and I'm at the mail login.

Carl

[multimediocrity]

Is Yahoo! in the lead? It seems to me (based on my research) that Google is still in the lead of popularity. Yahoo seems to be a close second.