Yahoo technology will offer abstracts of search results

From InfoWorld: Yahoo's lab in India is developing technology that will summarize information about Web search results rather than simply offer links as search engines currently do.

"When you type in a search today, you get a list of URLs (uniform resource locators), and they are not very informative," Rajeev Rastogi, vice president of Yahoo Labs Bangalore said on Thursday.

The technology, which will be offered on Yahoo Search next year, will offer small abstracts of the key information behind a URL, Rastogi said. "This will be much more informative for an user, and will offer him a much richer Web experience," he added.

The Bangalore lab is working in the area of automated information extraction, which involves going into the URLs, going through billions of pages, and extracting the relevant information, he said.

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