The Yahoo! Answers team answers your questions about the new homepage & search
Over the past few weeks we’ve made several exciting new changes to the overall Answers experience including changes to the look and feel of the site, as well as a new search experience for Yahoo! Answers.
While these changes have taken place, many of you have had questions about where we have relocated your favorite features, and what changes lie ahead. Below you’ll find some of the most commonly asked questions and their answers.
Q: Previously, I could click on “My Profile” to go straight to my profile page. This link is gone—how do I get to this page now?
A: To easily access your profile page, you can either click on your name next to the “Hello” message, or, click on the “My Activity” tab to jump straight to your profile.
Q: Below my name there’s now an “invite your friends” link—what does this do?”
A: Clicking on the “Invite your friends” link allows you to easily invite any of your friends to join you on Yahoo! Answers. From this page, you can easily enter in the email addresses of your family and friend and encourage them to join you on Answers—that way if you’ve recently asked a question on Answers and think your Aunt Sally may know the Answer but know she’s not on Answers, you can easily get her on board, and, get her to answer your question!
Please note that if you’re a Level 1 member, instead of seeing “invite your friends” you’ll instead see a link reading, “What are points and levels?,” encouraging you to learn more about Answers. For members who are level 2 and higher, you’ll be seeing this link added in under the “About” tab in the near future.
Q: How do I see my suggested questions?
A: If you have suggested questions, they’ll show up on your homepage as they did before. Currently, we don’t have a message in place that tells you “there are no suggested questions available at this time” but we’re looking to add this back in the near future.
Q: How do I see my recent activity details?
A: To see your recent activity details, just click on the “My Activity” tab—from here, you can see your activity summary, your activity details, as well as your questions, answers, starred questions and your watchlist.
Also from this page, you can easily click on the “Edit My Preferences” link to edit the content found within your Answers profile, or, if you’re elsewhere on the Answers site, just hover back on the “My Activity” tab and click on the “Edit My Preferences” link to be taken to the same edit screen.
Q: Now that you’ve changed the look and feel of Answers, what’s next?
A: We always have a few tricks up our sleeve, so be on the lookout for new things heading your way. In the meantime, we still love hearing your thoughts about the new homepage and the changes to search, so please keep the constructive feedback coming!
If you have additional “how-to” questions about the new homepage or search, or, just want to tell us what you think, please leave a comment below or stop by the Suggestion Board!
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fab as usual. and i didn’t know that. thank-you, you smart little Yamster. Truly, susan d.s.
The new changes are great! Love the layout, much easier and intuitive for navigation. I like the colors, but could use a bit of foliage under the banner, a lot in the empty right columns, for curb appeal (I’m thinking springtime here in the US
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Also think the new error message with link to the Suggestion Board is an excellent idea.
But don’t care much for whatever reasons why the questions are not appearing in the lists.
Thanks team.
and when will our comments here be released?
(for whatever reasons)
I would like an answer as to why legitimate questions are being deleted …I would also like something other than a generic response from the YA Team. I have requested the number or email of a Yahoo Administrator as well as someone who supervises the supposed monitors on the YA site. As of yet, nothing.
So, I guess I was hoping the new site would be a little bit more than just aesthetic. I was hoping for a little quality control, as well as something other than a kiddie page. But it seems this is still high school stuff. I know you have heard it before. I know I am not the only one. So why do the YA team refuse to give viable information when requested. And are they paid for the jobs they perform? If so, why do they give generic responses?
Comment posted on March 19th, 2010 at 4:27 pm by MB Price
The Advanced Search feature has become useless, and there’s nothing in this blog that explains anything about it, despite the title.
Except for the often requested upgrades to AS (sort options, etc…) there was nothing wrong with it.
And it would be easier and much more efficient to just call Aunt Sally
YAT, comments to this blog are not showing.
My question is why waste time making a bunch of useless cosmetic changes instead of fixing the real problems that exist on this site? MB Price gave a good example and your customers have pointed out the problems in many other blog entries. This is just another example of putting lipstick on a pig.
I just want to say that I hate this new system for Yahoo! Answers, and I’ve seriously lessened my usage of it. I’ve only been on here a couple times this past week, and both times were to ask a simple question and go. I was not answering them like I used to. This new system stinks. Sorry to be so blunt, but I don’t want to be misinterpreted. Change it back, and I’ll answer again.
The new interface is looked more friendly and eye-catchingly than the old interface.
The new search engine to be honest is pathetic, the searches come back with results that have nothing to do with what is being searched, arghh it’s so frustrating. PLEASE bring back the old Y!A search which was a thousand times better, I truly think everyone would agree with me on this one…
I am told by Yahoo that I shall never be asked my Password, but the minute I try to reach places like Yahoo.Mail I am suddenly asked for my Password.
This is a scam????
Your site is very good
You should be able to delete resolved questions. Thats so stupid that you can’t.