Yahoo! starts redirecting users according to Geolocation

Posted by guido on Friday, May 16, 2008 @ 01:53:51 MDT
Contributed by guido

Today, when i tried to visit www.yahoo.com with my italian IP, I was redirected to the italian version of the portal.
I hate Geo redirects.
One of the reasons I liked to visit yahoo.com was exactly this, the ability to select a portal for a specified country.
Having several websites with international audience, I think it's vital to know what's going on in different countries, what people is looking for, politics, and chronicles.
Google redirects you.  Live, ditto.  Now  yahoo  have joined the cruise.
After the latest shuffling of search results (the worst I've seen in two years), this is another Yahoo's big mistake.
What's wrong with you Yahoo? you screwed up  mybloglog with the latest redesign, after three years of beta, YPN is still a mess, there is nothing worse than 360, and now you are screwing up the portal with geotarget.
I'm speechless.





 

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