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 ...

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 ...

Just because Yahoo Inc.'s U.S. website and Microsoft Corp.'s Bing are using the same technological ingredients for searching the Internet doesn't mean they're slicing and dicing the results the same ...

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 ...

Yahoo is launching “Search Direct,” and if you know what “Google Instant” does, you’ll understand the two concepts instantly. Very similar to the Google service, Yahoo’s Search Direct will return an ...