Yahoo’s Scout blends AI answers with classic web links

Yahoo has introduced Scout, an AI-powered ‘answer engine’ that keeps results link-forward across Yahoo Search on web and mobile.

According to The Verge, Yahoo has launched Scout, a new AI search experience designed to summarize answers while still sending users out to the web.

Scout is available as a tab inside Yahoo Search, as a standalone web app, and as a featured experience in Yahoo’s redesigned Search mobile app.
Yahoo positions Scout as an “answer engine” that sits between traditional results pages and chat-style assistants, with multiple clickable sources surfaced alongside its summaries.
The product pulls from Yahoo’s own content verticals (like Finance and Sports) and integrates web results via Yahoo’s long-running partnership with Microsoft Bing.
Yahoo says Scout is built on Anthropic’s Claude model, with additional grounding and personalization from Yahoo data.
Monetization at launch includes affiliate links for shopping queries and an ad unit shown on some results pages; Yahoo has also floated a possible paid tier later.
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