SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo plans to show fewer links to other Web sites as it strives to provide more immediate gratification in its Internet search results and lure traffic from the market leader, Google. The upcoming changes previewed Tuesday are part of Yahoo's two-year effort to better understand its users' intentions so the first page of its search results contains all the vital information sought in a query. Depending how current tests go, some search results later this year may feature nothing but images of landmarks or video, if Yahoo's technology believes that is what's most likely to satisfy an individual user. Sunnyvale-based Yahoo has been losing ground to Google in the lucrative search market for years.
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