[uf-discuss] Microformat Base

Mon Dec 5 09:03:20 PST 2005

On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:10 AM, Chris Messina wrote:
> On 12/4/05, Scott Reynen <scott at randomchaos.com> wrote:
>>> Personally, I suspect there's just not enough microformatted
>> content out there yet to make it worth Google's cycles parsing
>> it." [2]. But I thought it better to try and prove myself wrong with
>> some code than to just speculate about it.
>> Um, why are we waiting for Google? I mean, besides technorati, aren't
> microformats kind of the next frontier for "smart" search engines?

Um, I don't think Scott's waiting, he's already built a spider to 
index a bunch of µf's.
> The "web as distributed database" sounds pretty damn appealing to me.

Still gotta index stuff.
-ryan
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