Rich Snippets (the term Google uses for Microformats, RDFa and Microdata) is used by many larger organizations. Rich Snippets is essentially data that conforms to a specific standard so that machines may understand the data. For example, say that I want to write a review, then I may use the hreview Microformat standard to review [...]
A new Telstra Blog has gone live over the past few days. The new Blog called ‘Telstra Exchange’ is a replacement for ‘Now We are Talking’. From a technological perspective it’s great that Telstra is again using WordPress as the Content Management System (CMS). Some of the WordPress Plugins being used are; Extended Profile: From [...]
Reading through the Nielsen article ‘Organized Chaos: Global Data Harmonization’ which describes, in the context of categorization, the challenges faced by a single product being used for different purposes, it became very clear how awesome Internet tagging is. Tagging is effectively the ability to designate a single item to multiple categories. The Nielsen article shows [...]
I noticed recently that Microsoft Live does not display my website or page on Australia specific searches. My TLD (Top Level Domain) is a .com however I have made numerous efforts to tell the search engines that my site is primarily for the Australian audience. Unfortunately Microsoft Live is the only one of the major [...]
Microsoft will soon be launching its next attempt in trying to capture a greater share of the search market. There has been a lot of news lately in relation to the various search engines; last week saw the launch of Wolfram Alpha, the week before was the news of Google starting to index ‘Rich Snippets’ [...]
