Yahoo! MyWeb 2.0 and 360° Update
I’ve been using Yahoo!’s MyWeb 2.0, and 360° to a lesser extend, for a while now. I’m not overwhelmed by either.
MyWeb 2.0
I’ve made it my default search in Konqueror so virtually all my searches have been with it. In two weeks I’ve only saved six pages. I don’t want to save a page unless I feel it’s useful, but by the time I determine that, I’ve long left the search results page. If it integrated into your browser’s bookmarks, I think it would be a lot more useful, but it’s still just a bookmark tool.
It doesn’t use your saved pages or searches you’ve done to personalise your search in anyway, which is disappointing. It’s literately a bookmarking tool. It doesn’t suggest other pages you might be interested in, or other people you might want to add to your community. So unless you know a lot of people using MyWeb 2.0, you’re never going to build a web big enough to restrict your searches to it.
There are a few other nuisances as well. You can edit the tags of your saved pages, but not the notes. Most of the pages I just saved and planned to come back to annotate them, so it was frustrating to find that I couldn’t edit the description. MyWeb 2.0 is also limited to the American search so I couldn’t limit to UK sites, which is something I do quite often. I also found when I was looking for less common information, Google is still miles ahead of Yahoo!’s search.
360° Yahoo! 360° is essentially a homepage maker for the social networking world. It gives you a blog, lets you put up links, photos, etc. It wasn’t what I originally thought it was and since it’s more geared to community and content generation I decided to give it a miss.
