I would like to think the management team at Yahoo read my previous post where I shat on them for ceasing any real innovation and decided to do something about it. If you haven’t heard, Yahoo has decided to embrace the semantic web. I think this is great news. The Semantic Web essentially extends the web with defined, semantic information using microformats and RDF such that computers can understand it. This promises to dramatically impact the web in many profound ways. More precise, intelligent searches should be possible, as well as more contextual ways to present search results. In a nutshell, this is exciting for Yahoo’s future. We will have to stay tuned and see if this has any impact on Microsoft’s intent to acquire Yahoo and, more importantly, if Microsoft would continue these efforts should the acquisition be consummated. This development is also exciting for the web in general. Stay tuned!