microformats-turns-5

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2 billion hCards

According to Yahoo! Search Monkey, there are now over 2 billion hCards on the web:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=searchmonkey%3Acom.yahoo.page.uf.hcard

This is perhaps due to a few fairly large recent deployments:

• BrightKite.com - all venues and user profiles have hCard (millions)
• Gravatar - all profiles now have hCards (millions)

94% marketshare

Some additional recent news:

• microformats has 94% marketshare compared to alternatives (e.g. RDFa) according to Google (announced at the Semantic Technology conference)
  • http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_semantic_web_push_rich_snippets_usage_grow.php
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