As Yahoo announces that it expects its search results to transition to Bing within the next couple of months rather than next year, Google had its own announcement to make. It may not be as immediately impacting as Yahoo’s own announcement but the purchase of Metaweb could still hold a few indications for the future of Google search results at the very least.

Before we get on to that, though, the major implication of the Yahoo Bing integration is that if your site currently performs better or worse on Bing than it does on Google then you should expect similar results from the world’s 2nd largest search engine too. Yahoo has stated that if there are any problems with the integration then they will regress to the proposed date of next year.

Metaweb is a search engine of sorts but it’s more a semantic database of documents and information with complex relationships between entries than it is a keyword based search engine. It stores entries on more than 11 million people, places, companies, films, and songs and users are able to search for the listings themselves or the relationships that exist between some of these pieces of information.

You can search for a list of female models from Birmingham that have appeared in GQ magazine and the relational database will find that information and provide you with a full list. What does this mean for the future of search and SEO? Well, not a whole lot just yet but it does show Google’s continued commitment to leading the search engine wars.