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Google is one of several [[search-engines]] that index and support microformats.
Google is one of several [[search-engines]] that index and support microformats.


== main search ==
== main search ==
[http://google.com/ Google.com] supports [[rel-nofollow]], [[hCard]], [[hReview]], [[hreview-aggregate|hReview aggregate]], [[hProduct]] (since 2009-05-12 for [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=99170 rich snippets]), [[hCalendar]] ([http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-new-rich-snippets-format.html since 2010-01-22]), and [[hRecipe]] ([http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/better-recipes-on-web-introducing.html since 2010-04-13]) - in main search. See also [http://microformats.org/2010/04/28/google-adds-support-for-hcalendar-and-hrecipe-rich-snippets related blog post on hCalendar hRecipe support].  
[http://google.com/ Google.com] supports [[rel-nofollow]], [[hCard]], [[hReview]], [[hreview-aggregate|hReview aggregate]], [[hProduct]] (since 2009-05-12 for [https://web.archive.org/web/20130717002527/https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/99170 rich snippets]), [[hCalendar]] ([http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-new-rich-snippets-format.html since 2010-01-22]), and [[hRecipe]] ([http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/better-recipes-on-web-introducing.html since 2010-04-13]) - in main search. See also [http://microformats.org/2010/04/28/google-adds-support-for-hcalendar-and-hrecipe-rich-snippets related blog post on hCalendar hRecipe support].  


=== rich snippets ===
=== rich snippets ===
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* See [[google-rich-snippets-issues]] for issues with Google's Rich Snippets Testing tool.
* See [[google-rich-snippets-issues]] for issues with Google's Rich Snippets Testing tool.


----
=== people ===
=== people ===
Google's [http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146646 documentation on Rich snippets - People support]
Google's [http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146646 documentation on Rich snippets - People support]
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* acquaintance (presumably from [[xfn]])
* acquaintance (presumably from [[xfn]])


[[rel-me]] support:
* https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1229920
----
=== organizations ===
=== organizations ===
Google's [http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146861 documentation on Rich snippets - Organizations support]
Google's [http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146861 documentation on Rich snippets - Organizations support]
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** longitude
** longitude


----
=== events ===
Google's [http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164506 documentation on Rich snippets - Reviews support]
Multiple events: <br>
http://www.google.com/help/hc/images/webmasters/webmasters_164506_richsnippets_multipleevent_en.gif
Or a single event: <br>
http://www.google.com/help/hc/images/webmasters_164506_richsnippetsevents_singleevent_en.gif
Details:
* "Event markup can be used to mark up events that occur on ''' ''specific'' future dates''', such as a musical concert or an art festival."
* "the name and location of the event, also needs to be clearly defined. Since this feature isn’t meant for advertising purposes, your '''event name should not contain any promotional elements such as the ''price'' of the event, a ''call to purchase'', or an indication of a ''sale or temporary discount'' '''."
[[hCalendar]] properties supported ('''bold''' = required)
* '''summary'''
* '''url''' - "Required for pages listing multiple events"
* '''location''' - "Required for single event. ... we recommend that you represent the location by using a nested Organization to specify a venue '''name and address'''." - [[hCard]]
* description
* dtstart
* dtend
* duration
* category
* geo
** latitude
** longitude
* photo
* tickets - "offer to buy tickets for the event. Can be a URL to a page where tickets can be purchased, or can include specific Offer properties, such as"
** price
** quantity
** priceValidUntil
** currency
----
=== reviews ===
=== reviews ===
Google's [http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146645 documentation on Rich snippets - Reviews support]
Google's [http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146645 documentation on Rich snippets - Reviews support]
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** value
** value
** best
** best
*** value-title support: <source lang=html4strict> <span class="best"><span class="value-title" title="10"/></span> </source>
*** value-title support: <syntaxhighlight lang="html"> <span class="best"><span class="value-title" title="10"/></span> </syntaxhighlight>
** worst
** worst
** "Tip: Don't add a separate hidden text block to specify the rating. '''Hidden content will not be displayed.'''"[http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=172705]
** "Tip: Don't add a separate hidden text block to specify the rating. '''Hidden content will not be displayed.'''"[http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=172705]
** img alt number parsing: <source lang=html4strict><img class="rating" src="four_star_rating.gif" alt="4 Star Rating: Recommended" /></source>
** img alt number parsing: <syntaxhighlight lang="html"><img class="rating" src="four_star_rating.gif" alt="4 Star Rating: Recommended" /></syntaxhighlight>
** value-title support: <source lang=html4strict><span class="rating"><span class="value-title" title="4.5" /></span></source>
** value-title support: <syntaxhighlight lang="html"><span class="rating"><span class="value-title" title="4.5" /></span></syntaxhighlight>
* '''reviewer'''
* '''reviewer'''
* dtreviewed
* dtreviewed
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* photo - though presumably this works in hReviews as well
* photo - though presumably this works in hReviews as well


----
=== recipes ===
=== recipes ===
Google's [http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=173379 documentation on Rich snippets - Recipes support]
Google's [http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=173379 documentation on Rich snippets - Recipes support]
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* author - Can include nested Person information - [[hCard]]
* author - Can include nested Person information - [[hCard]]


----
=== products and listings ===
=== products and listings ===
Google's [http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146645 documentation on Rich snippets - Products support]
Google's [http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146750 documentation on Rich snippets - Products support] and [http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=186036 Product properties: hProduct] in particular.


Details:
Details:
* "mark up your product information on a product page (a page that contains '''only a single product''') or an '''aggregated offer page''' (a page that lists a single product, along with information about different sellers offering that product).
* "mark up your product information on a product page (a page that contains '''only a single product''') or an '''aggregated offer page''' (a page that lists a single product, along with information about different sellers offering that product).
* "Because you cannot use microformats to indicate condition or availability (for example, "used" or "out-of-stock"), we recommend using hProduct only for new, in-stock products only."


[[hProduct]] properties supported ('''bold''' = required)
[[hProduct]] properties supported ('''bold''' = required)
* '''name''' (not fn?)
* '''fn''' ("name" in other vocabs)
* image
* photo ("image" in other vocabs)
* brand
* description
* description
* brand
* category
* category
* review - a nested [[hReview aggregate]]
* review - a nested [[hReview aggregate]]
* identifier
* (identifier - mentioned in other vocabs only)
** types: asin, isbn, mpn, sku, upc
** types: asin, isbn, mpn, sku, upc
* offerDetails - [[hListing]] - "An offer to sell the product. Includes a nested Offer or Offer-aggregate."
* offerDetails - [[hListing]] - "An offer to sell the product. Includes a nested Offer or Offer-aggregate."


[[hListing]] properties supported ('''bold''' = required)
[[hListing]] (offers) properties supported ('''bold''' = required)
* '''fn''' (as part of item)
* '''price''' - "A floating point number. You may use either a decimal point ('.') or a comma (',') as a separator."
* '''price''' - "A floating point number. You may use either a decimal point ('.') or a comma (',') as a separator."
* '''currency''' - "currency used to describe the product price, in three-letter ISO format"
* currency - "currency used to describe the product price, in three-letter ISO format" (documented as "required", but testing tool doesn't report any error for omitting)
* url (for offers, offer-aggregates in particular)
* priceValidUntil - "date (in ISO date format) after which the price will no longer be available. (Your product snippet may not display if the priceValidUntil property indicates a past date.)"
* priceValidUntil - "date (in ISO date format) after which the price will no longer be available. (Your product snippet may not display if the priceValidUntil property indicates a past date.)"
* seller - [[hCard]] (Person or Organization)
* seller - [[hCard]] (Person or Organization)
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* availability - "content" attribute must be one of: "out_of_stock, in_stock, instore_only, preorder"
* availability - "content" attribute must be one of: "out_of_stock, in_stock, instore_only, preorder"
* quantity
* quantity
* offerURL
* identifier
* identifier
** types: asin, isbn, mpn, sku, upc
** types: asin, isbn, mpn, sku, upc
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** types: asin, isbn, mpn, sku, upc
** types: asin, isbn, mpn, sku, upc
* itemOffered - [[hProduct]] - "The item being sold. Typically, this includes a nested Product, but it can also contain other item types or free text."
* itemOffered - [[hProduct]] - "The item being sold. Typically, this includes a nested Product, but it can also contain other item types or free text."
There is an obsolete claim of non-support: <blockquote>"We do not currently support the hListing format for product rich snippets."</blockquote> Real world examples have disproven this, e.g.:
* http://www.smartmaster.co.il/Default.asp?sType=0&PageId=77222
** has several hListings with <code>class=hlisting</code>
** Google Structured Data Testing Tool [http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smartmaster.co.il%2FDefault.asp%3FsType%3D0%26PageId%3D77222& shows extracted structured data]
*** 10 hListings, with <code>item</code> / <code>fn</code>, and <code>price</code> - all as marked up on the page.


== advanced search ==
== advanced search ==
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== search APIs ==
== search APIs ==
Google provides search APIs like:
* ...
* [http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/ Google Social Graph API] supports [[XFN]] (launched 2008 February). See "[http://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/findyours.html Google Social Graph API How are your sites connected?]".
 
== previous support ==
Google often [http://indiewebcamp.com/Google#Dead_Silos shuts down sites or services], and some of those were implementations.
=== Social Graph API ===
[http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/ Google Social Graph API] supported [[XFN]] (launched 2008 February). See "[http://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/findyours.html Google Social Graph API How are your sites connected?]".


== see also ==
== see also ==
* [[search-engines]]
* [[search-engines]]
* [[implementations]]
* [[implementations]]

Latest revision as of 21:37, 26 July 2023


Google is one of several search-engines that index and support microformats.

main search

Google.com supports rel-nofollow, hCard, hReview, hReview aggregate, hProduct (since 2009-05-12 for rich snippets), hCalendar (since 2010-01-22), and hRecipe (since 2010-04-13) - in main search. See also related blog post on hCalendar hRecipe support.

rich snippets

Main article: rich-snippets

Rich Snippets is Google's term for the enhancement of search results ("snippets") with information from microformats from pages.


people

Google's documentation on Rich snippets - People support

webmasters_146676_rspeople.png

Details:

  • at least two of the following must be present:
    • title or role
    • org
    • adr

hCard properties supported (bold = required)

  • fn
  • nickname
  • photo
  • title
  • role
  • url
  • org - "If fn and org have the exact same value, Google will interpret the information as referring to a business or organization"
  • adr
    • street-address
    • locality
    • region
    • postal-code
    • country-name
  • friend (presumably from xfn)
  • contact (presumably from xfn)
  • acquaintance (presumably from xfn)

rel-me support:


organizations

Google's documentation on Rich snippets - Organizations support

Details:

  • "Organization information (for example, details about a business such as a restaurant or attraction) that is marked up in the body of a web page can help Google understand location information in reviews or events."
  • "It can also be displayed on a Place Page—a web page that organizes all relevant information about a place. more about rich snippets for local search

rich-snippets-info.png

hCard properties supported (bold = required)

  • fn/org - "use both fn and org, and ensure that these have the same value."
  • url
  • adr
    • street-address
    • locality
    • region
    • postal-code
    • country-name
  • tel
  • geo
    • latitude
    • longitude

events

Google's documentation on Rich snippets - Reviews support

Multiple events:
webmasters_164506_richsnippets_multipleevent_en.gif

Or a single event:
webmasters_164506_richsnippetsevents_singleevent_en.gif

Details:

  • "Event markup can be used to mark up events that occur on specific future dates, such as a musical concert or an art festival."
  • "the name and location of the event, also needs to be clearly defined. Since this feature isn’t meant for advertising purposes, your event name should not contain any promotional elements such as the price of the event, a call to purchase, or an indication of a sale or temporary discount ."

hCalendar properties supported (bold = required)

  • summary
  • url - "Required for pages listing multiple events"
  • location - "Required for single event. ... we recommend that you represent the location by using a nested Organization to specify a venue name and address." - hCard
  • description
  • dtstart
  • dtend
  • duration
  • category
  • geo
    • latitude
    • longitude
  • photo
  • tickets - "offer to buy tickets for the event. Can be a URL to a page where tickets can be purchased, or can include specific Offer properties, such as"
    • price
    • quantity
    • priceValidUntil
    • currency

reviews

Google's documentation on Rich snippets - Reviews support

webmasters_146645_individualimage.png

Details:

  • the main topic of the page needs to be about a specific product or service. For example, using review markup on a page containing multiple products is not supported.
  • If the markup contains a single review, the reviewer’s name needs to be a valid name (Person or Organization)

hReview properties supported (bold = required)

  • item
    • fn
  • rating
    • value
    • best
      • value-title support:
         <span class="best"><span class="value-title" title="10"/></span>
        
    • worst
    • "Tip: Don't add a separate hidden text block to specify the rating. Hidden content will not be displayed."[1]
    • img alt number parsing:
      <img class="rating" src="four_star_rating.gif" alt="4 Star Rating: Recommended" />
      
    • value-title support:
      <span class="rating"><span class="value-title" title="4.5" /></span>
      
  • reviewer
  • dtreviewed
  • description
  • summary

hReview-aggregate additional properties supported in addition to the above (or additional requirements / subproperties)

  • count - "The total number of reviews for the item on your site. Note: Whenever you include count, the page must also contain review markup for each reviewed item. count should only include reviews on your own site."
  • votes - "contributes toward the average rating but not towards the number of reviews available" - essentially, a "number of ratings" property.
  • rating - required in their hReview-aggregate support
  • rating
    • average (additional subproperty)
  • photo - though presumably this works in hReviews as well

recipes

Google's documentation on Rich snippets - Recipes support

webmasters_173379_en.png

Details:

  • "When using recipe markup, the main topic of the page needs to be about a specific recipe. Using recipe markup on a page containing multiple recipes is not supported."
  • "f the recipe markup contains a single review, the reviewer’s name needs to be a valid name (Person or Organization)." [[[hCard]]]

hRecipe properties supported (bold = required)

  • fn
  • tag
  • photo
  • published
  • summary
  • review - nested hReview
  • prepTime - "length of time it takes to prepare the recipe for dish, in ISO 8601 duration format."
    • min
    • max
  • cookTime - "time it takes to actually cook the dish, in ISO 8601 duration format."
    • min
    • max
  • duration - "total time it takes to prepare the[sic] cook the dish, in ISO 8601 duration format."
    • min
    • max
  • nutrition - "These elements are not explicitly part of the hRecipe microformat, but Google will recognize them."
    • servingSize
    • calories
    • fat
    • saturatedFat
    • unsaturatedFat
    • carbohydrates
    • sugar
    • fiber
    • protein
    • cholesterol
  • instructions
    • instruction
  • yield
  • ingredient
    • name (not fn?)
    • amount
  • author - Can include nested Person information - hCard

products and listings

Google's documentation on Rich snippets - Products support and Product properties: hProduct in particular.

Details:

  • "mark up your product information on a product page (a page that contains only a single product) or an aggregated offer page (a page that lists a single product, along with information about different sellers offering that product).
  • "Because you cannot use microformats to indicate condition or availability (for example, "used" or "out-of-stock"), we recommend using hProduct only for new, in-stock products only."


hProduct properties supported (bold = required)

  • fn ("name" in other vocabs)
  • photo ("image" in other vocabs)
  • brand
  • description
  • category
  • review - a nested hReview aggregate
  • (identifier - mentioned in other vocabs only)
    • types: asin, isbn, mpn, sku, upc
  • offerDetails - hListing - "An offer to sell the product. Includes a nested Offer or Offer-aggregate."

hListing (offers) properties supported (bold = required)

  • fn (as part of item)
  • price - "A floating point number. You may use either a decimal point ('.') or a comma (',') as a separator."
  • currency - "currency used to describe the product price, in three-letter ISO format" (documented as "required", but testing tool doesn't report any error for omitting)
  • url (for offers, offer-aggregates in particular)
  • priceValidUntil - "date (in ISO date format) after which the price will no longer be available. (Your product snippet may not display if the priceValidUntil property indicates a past date.)"
  • seller - hCard (Person or Organization)
  • condition - "content" attribute must be one of: "new, used, refurbished"
  • availability - "content" attribute must be one of: "out_of_stock, in_stock, instore_only, preorder"
  • quantity
  • identifier
    • types: asin, isbn, mpn, sku, upc
  • itemOffered - hProduct - "The item being sold. Typically, this includes a nested Product, but it can also contain other item types or free text."

Related: Offer-aggregate properties supported (bold = required)

  • lowPrice - Floating point number
  • highPrice - Floating point number
  • currency - three-letter ISO format.
  • offerCount
  • condition - "content" attribute must be one of: "new, used, refurbished"
  • offerURL
  • identifier
    • types: asin, isbn, mpn, sku, upc
  • itemOffered - hProduct - "The item being sold. Typically, this includes a nested Product, but it can also contain other item types or free text."

There is an obsolete claim of non-support:

"We do not currently support the hListing format for product rich snippets."

Real world examples have disproven this, e.g.:

advanced search

Through additional user interfaces:

search APIs

  • ...

previous support

Google often shuts down sites or services, and some of those were implementations.

Social Graph API

Google Social Graph API supported XFN (launched 2008 February). See "Google Social Graph API How are your sites connected?".

see also