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 search quality. Among the benefits this has is showing locations on maps (for example, if you search for John Allsopp, it finds johnfallsopp.com, which has my (old) address marked up with geodata using the GEO microformat - so it automatically displays this on a map. It also shows events marked up using hCalendar on a Calendar n the search results.)
To me, these UI improvements to the search results are as innovative as “better” search results.
Give Microsearch a go, and hats off to the research crew at Yahoo!
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Nice find; unfortunately, the Microsearch link isn’t working–it needs and extra ‘/’ at the end.
Completely offtopic: the feed for all the posts seems to not be working correctly. Sage and Firefox can’t open the xml feed.
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