Yahoo is betting the house on its new AI, from search to all its services

Since August 2010, typing into Yahoo Search has meant getting a list of purple links yodeled by Microsoft Bing. That changes today. The Sunnyvale, California, company has rebuilt its engine powering its search using Scout, its AI answer engine launched as a beta in January. Eric Feng, senior vice president and general manager of the Yahoo Research Group, calls it “truly the biggest update that we’ve made to Yahoo search in years.” Scout is also colonizing all of Yahoo’s p...