Yahoo! Search announced today in their blog post that they will soon support in the Search Monkey project the use of semantic web technologies such as RDFa with standard vocabularies such as FOAF and Dublin Core. It also will do a lot of other cool stuff that you can read about above.
It was nice to see that several other people noticed this. (Techmeme frozen page – #1 story)
I didn’t work on this project and don’t work in the search division, but continue to build with Semantic Web technologies in another more internal-facing part of Yahoo! But it is exciting to see that there are more public applications getting out, such as this and research projects like microsearch by Peter Mika.
David Peterson
/ March 13, 2008G’day Dave,
Yes, this is a momentous occasion. The birth of the Data Web? I think so. I have been a true believer for awhile so this is a breath of fresh air…
Anyway, don’t forget to add my blog post to your list [1] :)
Cheers,
David http://data.boab.info/david/foaf.rdf
[1] Preparing your sites for the data web http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/03/14/preparing-your-sites-for-the-data-web/