Really liked the article Is Google Badly Designed? on Google Blogoscoped. He talks about the design considerations with Yahoo and Google and their home pages.
I thought it was interesting that Google was viewed as “friendly” because of its simplicity. Clearly Yahoo puts a lot of information on its page but it also feels very corporate.
From what I read, Google is having trouble getting people to use its other features. It’d be interesting to know what to degree this is because they’re not displayed the way that Yahoo’s are …