Comments on: Structured data - set to take on Google

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By: david.seth.p

david.seth.p — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:51:18 +0000

Thanks ParkinT for the comment :) It brought a smile to my face.

I also remember the good old days of AltaVista and the good old days of meta tags — and the fact that they actually worked!

That is an important challenge with embedded metadata, do we trust it? I think we are far enough along and can use social network like principals to filter out the rubbish and just return what “we” or our “trusted group” trusts.

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Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:46:57 +0000

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By: ParkinT

ParkinT — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:38:03 +0000

No longer does a search engine have to guess what was meant, the author can explicitly say what they meant. That is an important difference. A critical difference.

Being an Internet Dinosaur (I can remember software development BEFORE the web), I recall that is precisely what search engines used to do. In the days of Alta-Vista, the author would use meta-tags to describe the content (their original purpose).

By: Semantics Please » Blog Archive » Yet another structured-data enhancement

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:18:02 +0000

[…] I like David Peterson’s blog: yesterday I read an interesting article on how structured data (such as embedded meta or microformats) might take on Google. […]