Verizon Reveals the (Faded) Secrets of Yahoo Search

Verizon Reveals the (Faded) Secrets of Yahoo Search

Three months after acquiring Yahoo, Verizon is giving away the secrets of Yahoo’s search engine. Today, Oath, the Verizon-owned company born of the merger between AOL and Yahoo, released the source code of a data-crunching tool called Vespa, which has long-powered search and other features across the Yahoo empire. Now that it’s open source, any …