Image via CrunchBaseLONDON: Global internet services company Yahoo has announced that it will adopt some of the key standards of the "semantic web" to improve its search engine.
The technology, considered to be the next step for the World Wide Web, involves a much richer understanding of the masses of data placed online. Amit Kumar, director of product management for the company's search site, has revealed in Yahoo's blog that they will include some semantic web identifiers while indexing the web for Yahoo search.
Currently, most search engines, especially Google, use the interconnections between sites to identify relevance for a particular topic. Since the semantic web helps to capture the meaning of data on a page, it can enable a user searching the web to work out its relevance to a particular topic.
It promises to change this because it helps to capture the meaning of data on a page and so give machines the capability to work out its relevance to a particular topic.
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