Jim Lanzone on Yahoo's plan to fix AI search with more links to publishers

Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone told TNW the company will launch more personalised, agentic products in the months ahead. Yahoo Scout, its AI answer engine launched in January, uses a lightweight model on Yahoo's own data and links back to publishers; Lanzone argues AI answers should carry many more links, like a Wikipedia entry.

• Yahoo Scout launched in January and links back to publishers
• Yahoo has 700M monthly users, over 75% come directly
• Yahoo Finance has more than 150M monthly visitors
• In 2023 Yahoo shut two of three adtech units, cutting 1,600+ jobs