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December 7, 2008

Monkey Finds Microformats and RDF

In a blog post earlier this year, we announced that people could search for just entries with specific microformats.

There are 2 things we'd like to announce regarding that:

We now support adr, geo and tag microformats. Yay!
In the name of progress, we have added an extra namespace to the IDs to make room for other types of extraction. Anyone who is using these for their microformat searches, can now find our structured data with these queries.

And as before, you can look for hResumes with PHP on them, Geocoded pages involving Santa Clara, or RDFa pages related to SearchMonkey

Keep monkeying around.

Paul Tarjan
(|): Chief Technical Monkey :(|)

Posted at December 7, 2008 11:41 PM

Comments

The following example provided on this page does not restrict the search results to pages with the searchmonkeyid with the specific value.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=searchmonkeyid%3Acom.yahoo.page.uf.geo+santa+clara

The geo microformat just contains properties for latitude and longitude so the example provided appears to be incorrect.

http://microformats.org/wiki/geo-cheatsheet

How would you search for a page with microformat properties of specific values?

For example, find all pages containing an hResume where the location is 'San Francisco' and a skill is 'Java'.

Posted by: Rene Sugar at December 16, 2008 2:54 PM

Hey Rene,

If you view source on any of those pages returned by your query, you should see find at least one element with class="geo" on it.

And yes, we are faking 'Semantic Search' for now. You can only filter by the presence of a microformat, and then do a full text search for the rest of the terms.

Do you know of a good way to SPARQL over 10 Billion documents? :)

Posted by: Paul Tarjan at December 17, 2008 1:14 PM