According to a Nov. 27 article I came across in Macworld.com, Yahoo is going to launch a new structured search component to their web search engine. Yahoo Search users may soon be able to do a structured search around select terms, rather than navigate through a large number of search results.

For example, if a user inputs the words mobile phone in the Yahoo search box, apart from listing the usual search results containing the phrase mobile phone, Yahoo’s new structured search results will also offer pull-down menus with choices including mobile phone brands, technologies and specifications, and other features.

Once the user has made a selection on the menus, Yahoo Search will give the user a list of mobile phones meeting the specifications, their prices, and the Web sites where they can be purchased.

In an interview with Macworld.com, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo’s vice president of research for Europe and Latin America, did not say when the feature would be available on Yahoo Search, but indicated it could happen soon.