Yahoo hasn't been known for search since Google took that crown long ago. Can CEO Marissa Mayer turn the company into a player again? She's trying. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, ...

Yahoo is making important improvements to the user interface and the output of its search engine. It will now suggest complete search queries for you as you type. It makes entering queries a lot ...

Yahoo has started beta testing a search feature that displays answers to queries and links to websites on the fly as people type their queries. Yahoo officials said that Search Direct is proof that ...

"The evolution you see today reflects our focus on enabling people to connect with what matters to them most," said Ari Balogh, Yahoo executive vice president of products and CTO, in a statement. The ...

Why are the search engines so reluctant to reveal the rationale behind their keyword matching options? Perhaps because advertisers would revolt if they found out the random terms their ads were being ...

Yahoo beefed up its search offerings on Wednesday when it launched Axis, an HTML5-based browser app that delivers search results as page previews rather than as links. Axis shortens the time it takes ...

Yahoo has updated its mobile search engine to now place images, videos and reviews in the spotlight. Announced in a blog post by Andrew Poon, Yahoo’s vice president of product management, the change ...

Yahoo has begun testing publicly a new search technology that can generate queries on the fly based on the content of the Web page a user is reading. The goal of the new technology is to make it ...

Yahoo’s decision to use Microsoft’s Bing search engine could cause a “strange bedfellows” competitive conflict between Microsoft and IBM in the enterprise search market. Yahoo and IBM have offered ...