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Real World Microformats - RDFa, Microformats And Microdata Practical Examples. Have you ever seen those small grey descriptions in Google search results below the title?

Real World Microformats - RDFa, Microformats And Microdata Practical Examples

If you’re curious on how to get them, then the answer is embedded metadata. With the words embedded metadata we refer to a way to add invisible information in an HTML/XHTML document. These informations will be machine readable, by Google or Yahoo for example, but will not be seen in the browser. Microformats: What, Why, and How. Microformats: What They Are and How To Use Them. Advertisement Web 2.0 has its positive and its negative sides.

Microformats: What They Are and How To Use Them

Apart from tremendous technological improvements, provided by Ajax, semantically organized content and the growing popularity of RSS-Feeds, the term “Web 2.0″ still hadn’t managed to assert itself as the renewed Web rather than a new revolutionary technology as it is mistakenly being called. Consequence: many renewed techniques, which somehow seem to be related to the “new” Web, aren’t fully or properly understood.