Yahoo Launches Scout: An AI-Powered Answer Engine for Web Search
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David Pierce
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Summary
Yahoo is launching a new AI-powered search product called Scout, which represents a return to the company's original mission as a web guide. Scout combines Yahoo's data and journalism with general web search to create what the company calls an AI 'answer engine.' The product aims to help users navigate the modern internet by providing curated, AI-enhanced search results rather than just traditional web links.
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· 4 pulledYahoo's big AI play is, in many ways, actually a return to the company's roots.
Three decades ago, Yahoo was known as 'Jerry's guide to the world wide web,' and was designed as a sort of all-encompassing portal to help people find good stuff on an increasingly large, hard-to-parse internet.
With a new product called Scout, Yahoo is trying to return to being that kind of guide to the web — only this time, with a whole bunch of AI in the mix.
Scout combines Yahoo's data and journalism with general web search to form what the company calls an AI 'answer engine.'
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