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Yahoo has launched its latest AI powered search engine called Yahoo Scout which aims to transform search results into direct answers using user data and web content. The feature is currently available to users in the US in beta
Yahoo is officially entering the AI search wars with its new AI powered "answer engine" called Yahoo Scout. The new AI tool is designed to compete directly with the likes of the Google's AI Mode, Perplexity and ChatGPT's real-time search feature.
What is Yahoo Scout?
Yahoo says that Scout leverages the company's unique data and user insights along with over 30 years of history in search to shift search results from links to answers and search terms to natural language queries.
The AI powered search synthesizes information from the open web, Yahoo’s own content, and user data to deliver "clear, concise responses". The company claims that its new engine is informed by 500 million user profiles and a knowledge graph spanning over 1 billion entities.
Scout can leverage the capabilities of Yahoo owned and operated properties to help users with tasks like understanding upcoming weather patterns before a vacation, getting details about an important game, tracking stock price movements after earnings, comparing products before buying, or fact-checking a news story.
Jim Lanzone, CEO of Yahoo while talking about the new feature in a release said, “Search is fundamentally changing, and our team has been inspired to use our decades of experience and extremely rare assets to create something uniquely useful for Yahoo’s hundreds of millions of monthly users,”
“This beta launch is just the starting point. From search to our industry-leading verticals, Yahoo Scout will help our users accomplish their goals online faster and better than ever before.” he added
Key features of Yahoo Scout:
- Model: Yahoo says it has partnered with Anthropic to make Claude as the primary foundational AI model used for Scout. Additionally, the company is also leveraging its long-standing relationship with Microsoft by using Bing’s grounding API to ensure answers are backed by authoritative sources from the open web.
- Yahoo has added a new shopping feature to distill insights from expert articles and reviews to compare brands and products instantly. The feature is aimed at providing shoppable links without the need to open endless tabs.
- Yahoo Finance: The feature works to provide one-click access to real-time insights across company news, analyst ratings, financials, and earnings calls. The feature is desined to synthesize clear analysis with headlines that refresh every 10 minutes.
Who can use Yahoo Scout?
Yahoo Scout is currently available via for users in the US. Interested users can navigate to Scout.Yahoo.com and the Yahoo Search app on iOS and Android in order to use the new AI search experience. Yahoo says that the Scout is available to all its nearly 250 million users n the US and there are plans to expand its capabilities and personalization features in the coming months
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