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Yahoo says it will introduce new technology next year that will improve the way search results are presented.

Instead of offering links based on a query, Yahoo will provide a summary of information behind a URL. Yahoo's lab in India is developing the technology.

Rajeev Rastogi, vice president of Yahoo Labs Bangalore, said Yahoo Search "will be much more informative for a user, and will offer him a much richer web experience." The lab is working on automated information extraction, which goes into the URLs, through billions of pages and then pulls the relevant information.

On a product page for example users will see abstracts that display an image of the product, the name of the manufacturer, and the price, according to Rastogi. He added a link to a hotel would include the address, phone number, a map and rating of the hotel.

All of this sounds fairly similar to Google's Universal Search or an expansion of Yahoo Glue India. It will be interesting to see what the final product will be like and how it compares to Google's Universal Search and if it will help Yahoo gain mores users along with a bigger search share.