Posted March 14th, 2008, in: Semantic Web| Technology

Maybe it’s a bit silly to say that there’s “a Killer App (as in one)” for Semantics.  Nonetheless, Yahoo! announcing its search results will soon be taking advantage of Semantic Web Standards is definitely great news.  Quote from the Yahoo! Search Blog:

“In the coming weeks, we’ll be releasing more detailed specifications that will describe our support of semantic web standards. Initially, we plan to support a number of microformats, including hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom, and XFN. Yahoo! Search will work with the web community to evolve the vocabulary framework for embedding structured data. For starters, we plan to support vocabulary components from Dublin Core, Creative Commons, FOAF, GeoRSS, MediaRSS, and others based on feedback. And, we will support RDFa and eRDF markup to embed these into existing HTML pages. Finally, we are announcing support for the OpenSearch specification, with extensions for structured queries to deep web data sources.”

Hmmm.  Wasn’t I just saying something about Semantics having an effect on Search Results in the near future?  I guess Yahoo! doesn’t think that’s such a crazy idea.

Imagine that.  Standards for defining the context in which information can be used actually being used to help search engines provide users with more relevant results.  What a concept!

And on the SEO and SEM front, can you guess what Google, AOL, MSN and all the others are probably working on right now?