Jim Lanzone

CEO @Yahoo!

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

Appreciate the deep dive and as @rustybrick, @mgsiegler and others have noted these were all core values of the product from the start.

Also important to note that the quality (and distinctiveness) of our answers stems in large part from the unique, structured Yahoo data that we package up and send to the LLM. This will amp up even more as we add personalization for our logged in users.

[Aleyda Solis 🕊️ @aleyda]

🤖 Yahoo! released Scout, its new AI search engine, a few days ago, and it has, hands down, the most “open web” friendly interface compared to ChatGPT or AI Mode… and honestly, the best interface overall 👇

I’ve been comparing Yahoo! Scout vs. ChatGPT & AI Mode across answer quality, formats, and link inclusion, testing different search intents and verticals, and I couldn’t believe how consistently Yahoo! Scout delivers a more user- and open-web-friendly answer experience:

* Across most answers, it features a prominent, highlighted “Read More” button linking directly to the most relevant source behind the answer.

* It includes links to external sites directly within the answers, starting from the very first paragraph, often showing dozens of links to original sources (in addition to linking to all sources together at the end in a sidebar). In contrast, other AI platforms include far fewer links in the answer itself, and mostly push users to a sidebar to access external sources.

* It’s honestly crazy that after so much time of complaints from website owners, publishers, and the SEO community, Yahoo! ends up releasing a far more “open web”-friendly interface in its AI platform than… Google, that has supposedly been committed to improving theirs.

Although I was skeptical when I first saw the announcement, I’m more than happy to eat my words, and I want to congratulate Yahoo! for designing not only an easy-to-use interface, but one that genuinely incentivizes users to keep browsing the sites where the answers come from 👏

I really hope product managers and designers at @Google and @OpenAI take note.

[Eric Feng @efeng]

Excited to be on @MTSlive today at 11:40am PT! Tune in to hear us dig into the new @Yahoo Scout, the rebuilt Yahoo Search and why the open web matters more than ever. 🎙️

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

@HochstatMichael @FastCompany @efeng Well beyond just that. Coming soon.

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

Yahoo Scout is officially out of beta and ready to rock. @FastCompany with the scoop and first review. Scout still puts publishers from and center compared to others - and we do it in the most useful and thoughtful way. Great job @efeng and squad yet again. Keep going!

“Google keeps shuffling AI pieces around a page built for blue links. Yahoo’s new search results page, by contrast, feels like a clean, well-lighted place. The organization of the information in the search is clearer. And the Pivot Search feature is more intuitive to use than Google’s approach, which mostly puts its AI Mode at the same level as its other search types.”

https://t.co/UARA9Cf5ha

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

@SirAuDHD @FastCompany @efeng new/improved homepage is in the works. will all happen.

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

😂

[Josh Elman @joshelman]

I’d bet you didn’t have Yahoo! creating the most innovative search experience this year on your bingo card. But here we are.

https://t.co/9vSynnU3Si

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

@joshelman UC Zissou

[Deirdre Bosa @dee_bosa]

Studio built. Livestream locked. Microduck secured.

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[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

@DBerko It had two oo’s Dan. That’s all I’m going to reveal.

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

Got Wordle in one this morning. nbd.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Top 50 most talent-dense breeding grounds for founders.

Palantir at #1, Stanford at #2 and surprisingly Yahoo at #3.

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

@joshelman

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

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[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

@gregbettinelli @kendallbaker @kendallbaker is the 🐐

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

@AlexFinn @YahooFantasyJH looking good on there! 😎

[Deirdre Bosa @dee_bosa]

SOON: Exclusive with Jensen Huang --fresh off the GTC Berlin keynote stage.

Watch here LIVE: https://t.co/W9uMb9lyAb

[Josh Elman @joshelman]

Some think of Yahoo! as an old business, decaying.

But somehow @jlanzone and team are doing the unexpected - and really turning it around into a relevant modern juggernaut.

Kudos to my friend Jim even if he sucks at fantasy football.

great ROI for its investors too.

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

@lucasbuick @joshelman Don’t believe a word of it

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

@joshelman I’m great at fantasy football. Tell the truth now.