Posts Tagged ‘Microformats’

More semantics in Yahoo searches courtesy of Microformats

A couple of weeks ago it was announced that Yahoo will start indexing Microformats including hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom, and XFN types.

It’s great to see one of the big players shape up and start to implement this relatively new technology, and it would be great to see the other major SE’s follow suit soon. What with IE8’s ‘microformats-to-all’ push with it’s Web Slices feature based on hAtom (although it does use it’s own top-level concept on top of hAtom),