Yahoo Search will index microformats

As another step towards creating an open search platform , Yahoo announced support for microformats and other semantic web standards. Thus, developers can safely embed hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom and XFN data into HTML code, as well as create structured feeds on RDF and eRDF. Yahoo's search robot will correctly recognize the listed microformats and add information to the common database.

Many advanced sites, such as LinkedIn , have been using microformats for a long time, but ordinary developers have not yet had a strong incentive to use structural markup. Support for microformats by the search engines can be such an incentive.

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Support for microformats will be implemented in the new generation of Yahoo's search platform codenamed Search Monkey , which should appear in the future. Among other things, with its help, site owners will be able to program the Yahoo search engine in such a way as to modify the appearance of the search results on their site.
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The new search platform also plans to implement support for the Dublin Core, Creative Commons, FOAF, GeoRSS and MediaRSS components, and in the future, the OpenSearch specifications.

Detailed information on microformats will be announced at a conference for developers in a couple of weeks.