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Yahoo! Search and Microformats

A couple of weeks back I wrote about some experimental search features at Yahoo! which used microformatted content on a page to provide innovative search results and functionality.
Now, via ReadWriteWeb, we learn that Yahoo! is opening their search platform, and supporting search of structured data in web pages, specifically microformats and RDFa.
Amit Kumar, a big […]

Of Knol and the web

To huge fanfare, Google this week announced Knol. We really know little about it, other than what we might glean from a single blog post by Udi Manber, Google’s Vice President of Engineering, which hasn’t stopped breathless coverage in mainstream media and the blogosphere alike. My initial response was tepid, to say the best, and […]

microformats wrap up - google maps now returns hCards!

One of microformats patron saints (you can have more than one yeah?) Jeremy Keith has an enthusiastic wrap up on microformats after his recent trip to New York. He mentions the official news that Google Maps now returns hCard as part of search results!
Last week, Google’s Blogger announced hAtom support in all new […]