A leaner version of the Yahoo! homepage
There's a mean, lean version of the Yahoo! homepage. If you pull up search.yahoo.com in a web browser, you'll get a bare-bones page with no ads. It's even got the nifty little trick to put the cursor in the search box.
The total page weight (HTML + Images + JavaScript) comes in at 10.3K, which is actually lighter than www.google.com (12.3K). Both of these load faster than the 33K www.yahoo.com home page if you're using a 56K modem.
Now, if only there was a way to skip the banner ads in the search results...
There is, it's called privoxy (www.privoxy.org) ... sweet ad banner and content filtering proxy. filters based on URL, based on behavior, based on image size, you name it. Definitely worth playing with.
I can't remember the last ad-banner I saw, on any site. :)
Posted by Derek at January 13, 2003 05:00 PMJust spoof your UserAgent. Works like a charm. :-)
Posted by Jeremy Zawodny at January 13, 2003 09:12 PM