It has introduced a tool called SearchMonkey that will let website owners choose which information they want to be seen by Yahoo's search engine.

And surfers will be able to opt in to the SearchMonkey experience, choosing whether or not to use results from the enhanced service.

Yahoo's Jeffrey Revoy said: "We know our users want more than just a list of links from their search experience, so Yahoo has developed a revolutionary new product that makes this possible.

"Being based on open source technology, SearchMonkey benefits both website owners and users by serving enhanced listings which enable everyone to receive better and more relevant search results first time," Revoy continued.

Semantic technology is gradually being introduced to the web and involves better categorisation of the masses of data that is online to enhance services such as search.

You will be able to use more conversational and specific phrasing in semantic search services and results from many different sources can be presented to you on one page.

Yahoo has already stated its intention to embrace semantic technology to provide better products and services to surfers.

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