search-engines

search engines

Search engine implementations that index microformats across the web (i.e. not just on their own site). Alphabetical within status/stability.

established in production

• Google (rel-nofollow)
  • Google Advanced Search - Usage rights (rel-license)
• Technorati (rel-nofollow)
  • Technorati Tag Search (rel-tag)
• Yahoo (rel-nofollow)
  • Yahoo Creative Commons search ((rel-license)

new or beta

• Google Social Graph API How are your sites connected? (xfn) - launched 2008 February
• Yahoo Search Monkey (hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom, others) - launched 2008 May
  • search Yahoo for hCards
  • search Yahoo for hCalendar events
  • search Yahoo for hReviews
  • search Yahoo for hAtom
  • search Yahoo for XFN

prototype or alpha

• singpolyma social web search (xfn, hCard) part of the diso project.
  • e.g. try a search for Jeremy
  • 2008-08-19 DiSo Gets Search - blog post announcing it!
• Technorati Kitchen
  • Technorati contacts search (hCard)
  • Technorati events search (hCalendar)

rumored

• Google is rumored to be indexing hCards, perhaps related to the Social Graph API

related

• implementations