Posts with keyword: structuredweb

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Google Base Portends a Structured Web

Wed Nov 16 10:01:00 2005

I wrote a piece at Between the Lines today about the newly launched Google Base. Google Base has been described variously as an online database, competition for CraigsList, or Google's first crack at eBay. And of course, Base is being judged in that light: Google Base can be used to store information of any sort--the company seems to like using recipes as an example. Already, there's commercial stuff like classified ads and job listings in there; the service has been described as an eBay killer or a Craigslist killer. At the moment, it's clearly very far from being either.
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Greasemonkey and Microformats

Mon Oct 10 11:48:00 2005

Mark Pilgrim's been busy creating GreaseMonkey scripts that read and understand microformats. His goal is an uberscript that can be used to pull microformat structure from Web pages. Mark says: [I]magine searching such a database. And subscribing to your search results as a syndicated feed. It's coming. Within weeks, not years. All the data is out there; people are publishing this stuff anyway. If they publish it just 1% better (with appropriate microformatting), I can get 1000% more out of it. Or do you just use your browser to browse? That's so 20th century. From [microformats-discuss] Re: Educationg OthersReferenced
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