Yahoo has joined the new wave of AI-enhanced search with the rollout of AI Summary feature. Now you can collect and analyze structured data on its content using DataForSEO SERP API.
What’s Yahoo AI Summary?
Yahoo’s AI Summary offers intelligent conversational summaries of the search topic directly inside Yahoo search results. This feature, powered by OpenAI technology, appears above traditional organic results and is designed to help users get a quick answer at a glance.
Unlike Google’s or Bing’s implementations, Yahoo’s AI overview does not currently display citations or source URLs. Instead, it offers a self-contained summary, focusing entirely on readability and immediate insight rather than external references.
What’s new in SERP API
DataForSEO’s Yahoo SERP API now includes full support for the ai_overview element from Yahoo search results. To maintain consistency across engines, Yahoo AIO follows the universal ai_overview structure already adopted for Bing and Google AI features in our SERP APIs. This standardization allows you to easily integrate and compare AI-generated results from all major search engines.
Why this matters
AI responses are becoming a dominant visibility layer, transforming how users find and interact with information. By integrating Yahoo’s AI Summary data, you can stay ahead of these changes and adapt your workflows and SEO tools:
- Detect when Yahoo displays AI Overviews for your tracked keywords.
- Compare how Yahoo, Bing, and Google interpret the same query through their AIOs.
- Measure shifts in organic traffic and CTR when AIO appears above your content.
- Extract and analyze AI-generated text to understand how Yahoo’s AI frames key topics in your niche.
Check our updated API docs and explore the new ai_overview feature from Yahoo.