These are part of the "Rich Snippets" that Google is pushing. Check out: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-rich-snippets-semantic-web.html
They've partnered w/ a few sites already including Yelp and LinkedIn to markup their data using Microformats. - RYAN JOY http://twitter.com/atxryan On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Mark Phillip <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey folks, noticed something interesting on Google today, and am curious to > get the Refresh take on it. > > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22mark+phillip%22+linkedin > > It seems that Google is including extra information from LinkedIn when a > profile page is listed. Between the page title and the description on the > results page, Google is including the city and current position of the > person from their current LinkedIn data. > > Has anyone else noticed this? Is this a special one-off for LinkedIn > (that'd be weird), or is there some sort of microformat that I'm not seeing > in the page source? > > > > Thanks, > Mark > http://markphillip.com > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
