Yahoo! Indonesia Launches More Personal Homepage

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Yahoo! Indonesia has updated its homepage with a more personal format where users are allowed to set the news content that suits their needs and convenience. The new face of Yahoo! homepage has been established since February 23.

"We want to refresh the users' experiences to a more entertaining one," said Country Editor and Head of Audience of Yahoo! Indonesia, Dodi Ibnu Rusydi, Thursday. The display will make Yahoo! users to feel like home and without the presence of the annoying pop-up advertisements. "We will not put the advertisements that disrupt the users," said Dodi.

To set the homepage according their favor, the users should first log in to their Yahoo! Mail account. Users can click on the "Hapus (delete)" button on the up right corner of the news that shows up on the homepage. The deleted news can be brought back by clicking "Tidak Jadi (restore)" button. The news can also be saved by clicking "Y" button.

The new face is expected to stimulate the growth of Yahoo! users and the total page view in Indonesia. In the United States - the base of Yahoo! - the new homepage had been launched since February last year. "[This is] Because, United States is the biggest market for Yahoo!," said Dodi.

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