While many different media sites report, Yahoo! search has apparently given up will no longer try to be the number one in search. This would (at least to me) also imply that they would no longer strive to improve their search engine.
Now the people over at the Yahoo! Search blog contradict that news story and say:
There's been a lot of conjecture and confusion today about Yahoo!'s commitment to being the world's best search engine-talk which anyone who's been following the evolution of Yahoo! Search would have realized is… just plain wrong.
I'm personally glad to hear this.