Yahoo turns to AI in return to its search roots (apnews.com)
"Yahoo's journey illustrates how a company with an early advantage can disappear without continuous innovation," Scout explained. Was it so much innovation? All Google did was crawl sites and rank search with an algorhythm (for a while, it's not known for that more recently) to provide worthwhile results instead of just wandering. Then it had a sort of monopolly, which led it to form a partnership with the US (and other?) government. Google hasn't really innovated since then, decades ago, except in making their product more profitable (by making it less valuable to users) while maintaining its monopoly.
Scout runs on Anthropic, and Yahoo will use it to understand users better and give them content they will click.