--- title: Jim Lanzone on Yahoo’s plan to fix AI search with more... description: Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone discusses the company's turnaround, its AI answer engine Yahoo Scout, and plans for agentic products built on Yahoo Mail and Calendar. He... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/jim-lanzone-on-yahoo-s-plan-to-fix-ai-search-with-more-links-to-publishers-cwwqyqipk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Jim Lanzone on Yahoo’s plan to fix AI search with more links to publishers | daily.dev og:description: Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone discusses the company's turnaround, its AI answer engine Yahoo Scout, and plans for agentic products built on Yahoo Mail and Calendar. He... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/jim-lanzone-on-yahoo-s-plan-to-fix-ai-search-with-more-links-to-publishers-cwwqyqipk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CWWqYqIPK.png og:image:alt: Jim Lanzone on Yahoo’s plan to fix AI search with more links to publishers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Jim Lanzone on Yahoo’s plan to fix AI search with more links to publishers **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone discusses the company's turnaround, its AI answer engine Yahoo Scout, and plans for agentic products built on Yahoo Mail and Calendar. He argues AI answer engines should link back to publishers more heavily, citing Wikipedia as a model, and claims Scout's approach should be copied industry-wide. He also covers Yahoo's shift away from a money-losing ad tech business, layoffs in 2023, and growth in Yahoo Finance and Gen Z/millennial users. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Yahoo Scout and how does it handle publisher links? Yahoo Scout is an AI answer engine Yahoo launched in January that uses a lightweight model to process Yahoo's own data and links back to the publishers its answers are sourced from. CEO Jim Lanzone argues this approach should be copied industry-wide, comparing its link-heavy format to a Wikipedia entry, and predicts such click-through rates would beat early AI answer engines though not match search from two decades ago. _Anyone weighing how AI search affects publisher traffic can follow developments like Yahoo Scout on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Yahoo CEO says micropayments will never be enough for publishers](https://daily.dev/posts/yahoo-ceo-says-micropayments-will-never-be-enough-for-publishers-lyaf1pbsy) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [On Google declaring war on the Web](https://daily.dev/posts/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web-pcynbvyeh) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Under the Hood: AI Systems](https://daily.dev/posts/under-the-hood-ai-systems-h7whwpe2q) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Google's AI search overhaul is bad news for the open web](https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-ai-search-overhaul-is-bad-news-for-the-open-web-dxko4m8si) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Making AI search smarter](https://daily.dev/posts/making-ai-search-smarter-vdumwudvn) · Cloudflare · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#ai-search](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-search) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/jim-lanzone-on-yahoo-s-plan-to-fix-ai-search-with-more-links-to-publishers-cwwqyqipk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Jim Lanzone on Yahoo’s plan to fix AI search with more links to publishers","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/jim-lanzone-on-yahoo-s-plan-to-fix-ai-search-with-more-links-to-publishers-cwwqyqipk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/jim-lanzone-on-yahoo-s-plan-to-fix-ai-search-with-more-links-to-publishers-cwwqyqipk"},"datePublished":"2026-09-30T13:36:39.568Z","dateModified":"2026-09-30T13:36:55.509Z","description":"Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone discusses the company's turnaround, its AI answer engine Yahoo Scout, and plans for agentic products built on Yahoo Mail and Calendar. 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