GoKawiilYahoo replaces Bing-powered search with its own Scout AI engine
Yahoo has rebuilt Yahoo Search to run on Scout, its AI answer engine that had been in beta since January, ending a search arrangement with Microsoft Bing that dated back to August 2010. Eric Feng, senior vice president and general manager of Yahoo Research Group, described it as the biggest update to Yahoo Search in years, and said Scout is also being extended across Yahoo's other products.
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Dropping Bing in favor of an in-house AI engine suggests Yahoo wants to control its core search technology rather than depend on a rival's infrastructure, potentially reducing licensing costs and differentiating its product. Extending Scout across all Yahoo properties could signal an effort to build a unified AI layer that ties its services together, though how well it performs against established AI search rivals remains untested at this scale.
- Yahoo Search now runs on its own Scout AI engine instead of Microsoft Bing
- The switch ends roughly 15 years of Bing powering Yahoo's search results
- Yahoo plans to expand Scout across all of its other services
Source: fastcompany.com, 2026-11-10
Published there as: “Yahoo is betting the house on its new AI, from search to all its services”
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