In a rare display of collaboration,Google has joined forces with its search rivals Microsoft and Yahoo in a project intended to improve the Web crawling and indexing of structured data,which often originates in databases and loses its format when converted into HTML.
The 3 companies have launched a site called Schema.org which contains a common set of HTML tags that they hope webmasters will use to mark up structured data on their sites.
"Schema.org aims to be a one stop resource for webmasters looking to add markup to their pages to help search engines better understand their websites."
Google said.
The 3 companies have launched a site called Schema.org which contains a common set of HTML tags that they hope webmasters will use to mark up structured data on their sites.
"Schema.org aims to be a one stop resource for webmasters looking to add markup to their pages to help search engines better understand their websites."
Google said.
Yahoo's SearchMonkey developer program was the first broadly popular search program designed to encourage webmasters to improve structured data markup on their sites, said IDC analyst Hadley Reynolds.
"The new program catches some of the spirit of SearchMonkey, while adding real value by including Google and Microsoft. This will now be a 'job one' for Web developers looking to get their sites highly ranked by the [companies'] engines," he added.
This is cool, with collaboration we get things done faster...
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