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 wig at Yahoo! Search product development, writes
Initially, we plan to support a number of microformats, including hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom, and XFN. Yahoo! Search will work with the web community to evolve the vocabulary framework for embedding structured data. For starters, we plan to support vocabulary components from Dublin Core, Creative Commons, FOAF, GeoRSS, MediaRSS, and others based on feedback. And, we will support RDFa and eRDF markup to embed these into existing HTML pages. Finally, we are announcing support for the OpenSearch specification, with extensions for structured queries to deep web data sources
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Fantastic news.
I wonder when, or whether Google, which has to date shown far less affinity for microformats than Yahoo!, will announce similar functionality?
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