Just so we’re all on the same page here… I am drinking the Yahoo Kool-Aid. But I can quit any time I want.

Case in point: The new redesign of the home page. It’s lame. I saw a comment from someone somewhere saying that it needed to be more like Google’s page. I agree. Not so much to the extent that it needs to have no content on it (since Yahoo is trying to pretend like they’re a content/media provider), but in that it needs to load fast. I don’t just mean like 1-2 seconds fast (just now, on my T-449 line at work: My Yahoo: 2.65s, Yahoo: 1.352s, Google: 0.51s), I mean like, I fire up my browser at least 10 times a day (maybe more since Firefox has started grabbing 100+ MB of my RAM, and I have to shut it down to free up those resources for my localhost server), and I need to have it start like I was looking at about:blank. If the new Yahoo page can do that, and they pay me to use it, then I will be on the train sitting in the lounge car from here to Oregon.

Yahoo to offer incentives for using search engine? | News.blog | CNET News.com

Yahoo confirmed on Wednesday that it’s polling some Yahoo Mail users about what they would want in exchange for making Yahoo their primary search engine. The survey was sent to a random sampling representing about 5 percent of its Yahoo Mail users, a Yahoo representative said.

The potential rewards are after the jump, and I would jump just about any of them. If Yahoo won’t do what I tell it to do, at least it is considering doing other things that will make me happy in areas where I haven’t told them what to do.

It’s called a Calendar.

There’s also a thing called a todo list.

I realize you just used up that line of equity to get the new mailbox, but I haven’t even seen that yet. Of course, I’ve heard enough about it to already be demanding upgrades to the kitchen. I don’t need granite countertops… but a dishwasher would be nice… or maybe color-coded categories for events. And the ability to choose my own event categories. And the ability to share only certain categories with only certain people. Kind of like I can do with stuff on my 360 page. Why not upgrade the stuff that is already there before making something new that extends all that old stuff? Even if it’s a fantastic extensionizer, it’s still just adding to old stuff.

I realize that you “aren’t buying Digg” but if you were going to buy someone out… I bet you could get RememberTheMilk really cheap. I mean, like throw a couple M over there and you’ve got the best Todo List app there is. Period. PS: This GTD thing is pretty hot right now. I bet people would freak the heck out if they could use your best-in-class email app to automatically create todo items in your best-in-class todo list app. There’s people writing plug-ins to do that in Outlook. That sucking sound you hear is Microsoft dollars going down the drain.