Yet again, Yahoo! has impressed and surprised the world by adopting the Semantic Web. Yahoo! had been announcing about expanding Open Search Platform and letting third parties to alter and enhance search results with structured data that may be useful to users.

The Register on their article quoted that Microsoft is in no hurry to integrate the technology and culture of Yahoo! should the aggressive takeover go ahead. This remark is obvious because the technologies and cultures of MSFT and YHOO are very different. Yahoo! is a mixed bag of technology with a large proportion of its systems running open source while Micro$oft have their own propitiatory system.