Yahoo adds personalized homepage to its Scout AI search engine

Yahoo today introduced MyScout, a customizable homepage inside Yahoo Scout, its beta AI answer engine.

How MyScout works. Logged-in users can customize the homepage with tiles that pull information from Yahoo properties (e.g., Mail, News, Sports, Finance, Games). Examples include:

• Inbox previews from Yahoo Mail.
• Stock updates from Yahoo Finance watchlists.
• News topics and trending stories.
• Scores and schedules for favorite teams.
• Weather, shopping comparisons, and games.

Users can add, remove, reorder, or create tiles based on topics or queries they want to follow.

• Some tiles update in real time, such as stock prices.
• Other tiles refresh throughout the day with updates like email, sports scores, and breaking news.
• The experience will become more “agentic and personalized” as the system learns from user activity, Yahoo said.

New publisher features. Yahoo says Scout supports the open web by linking users directly to original sources used in its AI answers. To support that goal, Yahoo News is also launching new publisher features designed to help you grow recurring audiences on its platform:

• Publisher brand pages that aggregate your articles, videos, and social feeds on Yahoo.
• A follow feature that lets users subscribe to your content and receive curated newsletters in their inbox.

Availability: Yahoo Scout — including MyScout — is available in beta for U.S. users at Scout.com and through the Yahoo Search app on iOS and Android.

Yahoo’s announcement. Yahoo Introduces MyScout, the First Personalized Homepage for AI Answers

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