Ask HN: Micro-formats, are they still relevant/useful? I'm in the process of building a social site and I was wondering if microformats are still relevant and or useful? Should I bother implementing them? Thanks! |
Ask HN: Micro-formats, are they still relevant/useful? I'm in the process of building a social site and I was wondering if microformats are still relevant and or useful? Should I bother implementing them? Thanks! |
The microdata schemas supported by the three major search engines are documented at http://www.schema.org. Also, Google still supports microformats: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...
If some of your data can fit in one of those formats you could benefit from a enhanced presentation in the search engine results pages.
Example: http://schema.org/Recipe — google "spicy pork recipe", I see some results with photos, calories, etc.