BEIJING, Aug. 25 — Yahoo launched interface redesigns of Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger.

Yahoo said the latest Messenger version was launched Monday, upgrades to email were also released to U.S. users Monday and to the rest of the world in a few weeks, and Yahoo Search will be rolled out later this year.

Yahoo said it is working to develop a new page design for Yahoo Search to deliver results that are more relevant to users’ queries, including Search Assist — a realtime query suggestion engine.

The redesigned Yahoo Mail will have more photo-sharing capabilities and social-networking functions, such as displaying recent emails from social networking contacts, links to photo albums and birthday reminders, according to Yahoo.

The new Yahoo Messenger will have high-quality video calling capabilities that enables users to take full-screen, face-to-face chats.

The rapidly growing popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook put the Internet portal under great pressure. In July the company said its second-quarter revenue fell 13 percent. 

On Xinhua Web site: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/25/content_11940997.htm