I’m not happy with Yahoo. This morning Yahoo Messenger asked me if I would like to upgrade. I agreed because the old version used to crash lots. As part of the upgrade it installed the Yahoo toolbar, changed my homepage to Yahoo and changed the default search on IE7 to Yahoo. At no stage was I asked if I would like any of this. Now I’m angry at Yahoo.
I would expect this type of aggressive behavior from some dodgy screen saver software but not from a trusted company like Yahoo. The tactic will probably work and Yahoo will probably see a small bump in the number of searches it serves. However I hope this doesn’t lower the whole playing field so anytime we install anything from Microsoft or Google they change our defaults without asking us.
