If you want to try it yourself on Yahoo! Search use the keyword searchmonkeyid:com.yahoo.uf.<format> in your searches, like:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=searchmonkeyid%3Acom.yahoo.uf.hcard+%22Andr%C3%A9+Lu%C3%ADs%22&ei=UTF-8&y=Search&xargs=0&pstart=1&b=11 If you're curious, here's the number of results it returns for each format: 1. hCard — 1,150,000,000 pages (!!!!!) 2. hCalendar — 84,700,000 pages 3. hReview — 43,300,000 pages 4. hAtom — 304,000,000 pages 5. hCalendar — 261,000,000 pages Cheers, -- André Luís http://andr3.net On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Dan Brickley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rob smith wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> If I am right, one of the primary objectives of using microformats is to >> be able to retrieve the desired information from web pages around the world >> easily and reliably. >> >> In connection with this, I'd like to know which all search engines support >> the "microformat based web search". In other words, how do I do a >> "microformat based web search" using a search engine like >> google/yahoo/technorati? e.g. how do I query for all events happening around >> the world on July 16, 2008? > > Not a direct answer, but you might look into SearchMonkey from Yahoo (this > decorates search results page with custom info from microformats and rdf); > or at Google's Social Graph API, which is focussed more on identity > reasoning about people identified in different ways, described in xfn and > foaf. > > hope this helps, > > Dan > > -- > http://danbri.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > microformats-discuss@microformats.org > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss