> My mom would never search for hcards (no matter the syntax) > any more than she would search for images in a PNG format. > It's a niche search that could be performed by a small > group of technical people and it's no surprise that > general-purpose search engines haven't made it a priority. > Nor do I think such support would add much value for most > people.
I completely agree. I think the real value will come from enabling easy creation of services that will use the search as backend, and present the results with a good front end. For example, a site for restaurant reviews - users will specify what kind of food, location etc, the site does a query to Yahoo search API, filters the relevant results and displays them nicely. The key is you can relegate the heavy weight search/aggregation functionality and focus on your specific domain.
Yes, considering the idea I outlined is all of 12 hours old (or 4 days, depending on where you start counting), it's amazing search engine companies aren't already retooling.
It was always possible to simply index 'class="hreview"' etc. I suppose that's what Technorati did. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
