[uf-discuss] microformat based web search

[André Luís]

If you want to try it yourself on Yahoo! Search use the keyword
searchmonkeyid:com.yahoo.uf.<format> in your searches, like:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=searchmonkeyid%3Acom.yahoo.uf.hcard+%22Andr%C3%A9+Lu%C3%ADs%22&ei=UTF-8&y=Search&xargs=0&pstart=1&b=11

If you're curious, here's the number of results it returns for each format:

   1. hCard — 1,150,000,000 pages (!!!!!)
   2. hCalendar — 84,700,000 pages
   3. hReview — 43,300,000 pages
   4. hAtom — 304,000,000 pages
   5. hCalendar — 261,000,000 pages

Cheers,
--
André Luís
http://andr3.net

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Dan Brickley <danbri at danbri.org> wrote:
> rob smith wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> If I am right, one of the primary objectives of using microformats is to
>> be able to retrieve the desired information from web pages around the world
>> easily and reliably.
>>
>> In connection with this, I'd like to know which all search engines support
>> the "microformat based web search". In other words, how do I do a
>> "microformat based web search" using a search engine like
>> google/yahoo/technorati? e.g. how do I query for all events happening around
>> the world on July 16, 2008?
>
> Not a direct answer, but you might look into SearchMonkey from Yahoo (this
> decorates search results page with custom info from microformats and rdf);
> or at Google's Social Graph API, which is focussed more on identity
> reasoning about people identified in different ways, described in xfn and
> foaf.
>
> hope this helps,
>
> Dan
>
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