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<entry-title>Google Search</entry-title>

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

Google.com supports rel-nofollow (since 2005(?) citation needed) and as of 2009-05-12, hCard, hReview, hReview aggregate, hProduct in rich snippets in search results.

Main article: rich-snippets

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

See google-rich-snippets-examples for documentation of Google's microformats examples.
See google-rich-snippets-issues for issues with Google's Rich Snippets Testing tool.

Through additional user interfaces:

Google provides search APIs like:

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 [http://google.com/ Google.com] supports [[rel-nofollow]] (since 2005(?) citation needed) and as of 2009-05-12, [[hCard]], [[hReview]], [[hreview-aggregate|hReview aggregate]], [[hProduct]] in [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=99170 rich snippets] in search results.
-See [[google-rich-snippets-examples]] for documentation of Google's microformats examples (along with a few corrections/improvements).  See [http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/104 Jeni's blog post on What’s wrong with Google's RDFa Support] for a description of the numerous problems in the *RDFa* documentation/implementation of "rich snippets". ([[to-do]] extract these instances of real world problems, analyze for causes, and note principles and techniques for avoiding them in the future.)
+=== rich snippets ===
+{{main|rich-snippets}}
+Rich Snippets is [[Google]]'s term for the enhancement of search results ("snippets") with information from microformats from pages.
+* See [[google-rich-snippets-examples]] for documentation of Google's microformats examples.
+* See [[google-rich-snippets-issues]] for issues with Google's Rich Snippets Testing tool.
 == advanced search ==