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More microformats in search engines

Hard on the heels of Yahoo!’s recent release of microformatted search results, human powered search engine Maholo has announced their support for microformats where relevant in search results.
There’s a detailed blog post by Sean Percival at Maholo, and quite a bit of coverage round the webs. Exciting stuff.
What excited me about this is by exposing […]

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 […]

Yahoo! Microsearch

In the midst of a year of considerable upheaval at Yahoo! (or so it would appear from the outside) their developers continue to impress with cool new stuff. Most recently, Microsearch, an experimental search engine that in addition to traditional search techniques, extracts microformats and other metadata (RDF and RDFa) from pages to help improve […]