Too many clicks, Yahoo. Too many clicks.

One of the most confusing things about the new Yahoo is the number of times that you have to click to get to the content you're looking for. For example, the tabbed section on the top of the home page is theoretically nice as you can easily browse headlines.














If I click the "most featured link" at the top of the box, I go to that story as expected. (In this case, clicking "Can your boss be trusted" and clicking ">>Learn more" go to the story."

But if I click the headline for one of the other four links, shouldn't I expect to go to THAT story? Let's say I want to read about the four-day diet plan to jumpstart the new year, so I click it. I don't go to that story. Instead, it just becomes the story at the top of the box.














The problem is, no useful additional information is displayed when it's pushed to the top of the box. "This four-day diet plan will help you jumpstart your health regimen in the new year" does not actually provide more information to help me evaluate whether I want to read the story than "Four-day diet plan to jumpstart the new year." To view the story, I have to click TWICE -- once to move it to the top of the box, and then at the top of the box to get to the actual story.

The first time this happened, I just thought the links were dead because I couldn't believe I had to click that many times to get to the content and I didn't notice that the stuff at the top of the box changed because the text where my cursor was located did not.

Really, they should want me to go straight to the content! That's where the ads are!

It's a lot of unnecessary clicks over the course of the day.