Yahoo Inc. has made significant enhancements to its search engine, and the company said the changes will boost the speed of searches and improve the accuracy of results. The engine’s new Search Assist ...

Marissa Mayer has been working diligently to revive the fortunes of Web firm Yahoo since taking the reins back in July 2012, though the enormity of the task means the challenge is far from over.

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Yahoo Inc. has purchased Inktomi Corp. for about $235 million, the companies announced today. Yahoo will add Inktomi’s Web search technology to its portal sites in hopes of becoming the premier ...

Yahoo, once a business with a $125bn valuation at the height of the dotcom boom, has agreed to sell its core internet business to Verizon for just $4.8bn. Since Yahoo agreed to let Microsoft serve ...

Yahoo has enhanced its My Web personal search service to make it possible for users to share their personal Web index of pages and links. My Web 2.0, which is in test ...

Yahoo’s search engine is gaining hooks into fee-based content from news providers such as Dow Jones & Co.’s The Wall Street Journal Online and from research providers such as Forrester Research. Yahoo ...