28. SearchMonkey Acme.com’s database Index RDF/Microformat Markup site owners/publishers share structured data with Yahoo!. 1 consumers customize their search experience with Enhanced Results or Infobars 3 site owners & third-party developers build SearchMonkey apps. 2 DataRSS feed Web Services Page Extraction Acme.com’s Web Pages
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns
As Vish discussed, SearchMonkey is all about building richer, more useful search results. Here’s a few examples Enhanced Results.
And it allows the user to add the movie directly to their online movie rental queue
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Results are good, but consider the ads: First ad says: Virgins. Looking for virgins? Find exactly what you want today. Ebay.com Second ad: Virgins. …Find cheap tickets for Virgins. Third ad: Adspam… these people buy Yahoo! traffic and sell it to Google.