Revamped Yahoo News Site Goes Live

After just two weeks in testing, Yahoo has dropped the beta tag from its revamped news aggregator, officially replacing the old Yahoo News. The new site streamlines the Yahoo News interface to pack in more headlines and pictures, along with adding support for user-added news sources via RSS feeds.

Customization is at the forefront of the refreshed Yahoo News, and comes one month after Google News gave readers the ability to customize their headlines. But unlike Google, which has even begun including blog postings as news sources, Yahoo only pulls headlines from a limited number of major media outlets. To make up for the smaller pool of content, Yahoo members can add headlines from any RSS-enabled Web site.