The crunch comes halfway down the page or so ...

<i>"All these facilities are free to us, so the web big guys will have to make their money elsewhere, namely advertising.

By giving us a personal login and customisable homepage, it is hoped that we will start treating it like home, and keep coming back.

But if we want free homes, we may just have to put up with a few adverts."</i>

Adverts directly on to your desktop? Erm .... No Thanks! Yahoo already have that foul search bar that tracks all your internet movement so that they can target advertising at you. One of these days Spyware will become illegal (at least without full disclosure of intent).