Yahoo will soon be rolling out a new homepage design and will begin testing it today with selected “testers” from UK, US, France and India. The new homepage would also come with new features that is aimed at establishing the Yahoo portal as a “friendly and more open” user start page.

Specifically, the new homepage:

will help you get more out of the Internet, make more of your precious time, and make sense of all the things going on in your world. After lots of ongoing research (i.e., focus groups, usability experiments, etc.), today we’ve begun testing an all-new, more streamlined Yahoo.com that will bring the things that matter most to you –- no matter where they “live” on the Web

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