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Google accepts RDFa and microformat

On Tuesday, the alpha animal of all search engines – Google – announced a new Feature called “rich snippets”, that will delight the semantic web community in some way.

How come?

With rich snippets, Google jumps on the accelerating bandwagon of linked data and the semantic web. It does so, by reading embedded semantic annotations, that were placed into the HTML code of a site. For now, the Google spiders understand the concepts of People and Reviews and will accept descriptions in RDFa and microformat. After reading, Google will then display so called “rich snippets” on any search result, that points to a site that contains semantic annotations.

For more information, read the original article in the Webmaster Central Blog of Google. Web coders may find this Google support site on marking up structured data helpful.