Occasionally I mark up parts of my blog posts with microformats like hCard, XFN and hAudio. However I have doubts sometimes if it is worth the extra effort because readers can’t see it. It’s up to computers to parse that information and use it for all kinds of purposes.
Though there is some hope that microformats and other semantic markup is gaining some momentum. Besides data portability - primarily taking advantage of hCard and XFN - Yahoo! is starting to index that markup as mentioned in February already. Today it has announced which standards it will support. And that list looks quite impressive:
- microformats like hCard, hReview, hCalendar, XFN, hAtom
- Dublin Core, Creative Commons, Media RSS, Geo RSS, FOAF
- RDFa, eRDF
Indexing those standards will certainly result in more detailed and richer search results. Looking forward to it.
Awesome news… and I think we read the same RSS-Feeds