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Monday, November 01, 2004
I've been greatly enjoying the gradually-improving My Yahoo! functionality. However, there are certain things about the experience that continue to be needlessly irritating. Not all of this is Yahoo's fault, but they share the blame.
The Wall Street Journal headline modules seem to be divvied into two types: articles for paid subscribers only, denoted by a [$$$], and the free ones. Unfortunately, in practice, there is no difference. Most of the time I click on one of these headlines, I'm asked to become a WSJ subscriber in order to view the content. Some might indeed want to do this, but a lot of the headlines in question are just garden-variety stories also available through major newswires, and easily accessed with a couple of mouse clicks through Google News.
Another irritant is the use of unreliable third-party data feeds for easily available information, such as a real-time update of the PGA Tour money list. At this time of year, I usually look at the bottom of the list to get the answers to morbid questions like "did Paul Azinger finish 127th on the list?" Yahoo's partner for this info, Golfserv, takes two days longer to update this information than the PGATour.com site itself, thus necessitating a trip to, well, PGATour.com. The PGATour.com site, and several other sites, also seems to update real-time tournament scoring info about 60 minutes sooner than Yahoo's Golfserv feed.
We can send a man to the moon, but we still can't... etc.
Posted by
Andrew Goodman
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