Yahoo hasn't been known for search since Google took that crown long ago. Can CEO Marissa Mayer turn the company into a player again? She's trying. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, ...

Yahoo has started beta testing a search feature that displays answers to queries and links to websites on the fly as people type their queries. Yahoo officials said that Search Direct is proof that ...

August of last year, Yahoo began pointing “link:” and “linkdomain:” without other search operators queries towards Site Explorer. Today, Yahoo will be redirecting “domain:” and “hostname:” queries to ...

Yahoo seems to be testing AI Chat within its search results. The chat feature loads on the right side for your query. You click on it and it loads an AI chat bot. This was spotted by Sachin Patel who ...

Yahoo has been "quietly testing" the sponsored search tool Rich Ads In Search with a select number of national brand advertisers, according to Tim Mayer, Yahoo VP for search monetization and ...

Yahoo released on Wednesday an extension to its YQL platform for simplifying how Web applications consume data. YQL (Yahoo Query Language), launched in October 2008, is gaining an “execute” feature ...

Yahoo has updated its mobile search engine to now place images, videos and reviews in the spotlight. Announced in a blog post by Andrew Poon, Yahoo’s vice president of product management, the change ...

Yahoo is pushing one of the frontiers for search engines and has launched a test site for searching video content on the Web. The site, at http://video.search.yahoo ...

Yahoo has quietly updated its Yahoo Image Search preview page with a friendlier interface that displays larger images, and makes it easier to browse related thumbnails. Is it easier to use than Google ...