A new one-stop, comprehensive resource for webmasters

Basically speaking, schema.org is intended to serve as a one-stop, comprehensive resource for webmasters who are keen to add markup to make the pages better understood by the top search engines. It was in 2008 that Yahoo! expressed its support of structured data by launching the SearchMonkey program.

The company credited itself to have helped increase in markup on the web realm that in turn enhanced the overall search experience. This was possible because of fast resolving queries through improved result displays. The program also allowed Yahoo! to kick start various other initiatives to offer a far better and fruitful search experience on Yahoo! Search, comprising automatic rich results as well as richer object displays.

A richer and more useful search experience

Yahoo! mentions in an official release:

“We continue to support the open web. In an effort to give our users richer and more useful search experiences we together with Google and Bing have pooled our experiences. The latest development opens up huge opportunity for growth. Apart from consolidating those for the vocabularies that we already support, there’re schemas for over a hundred just created categories like movies, music, TV shows, products, places etc. We’ll continue to expand the categories based on feedback from the user community, to publish new schemas regularly.”

Google makes a similar claim of having supported structured markup by introducing rich snippets a couple of years ago. The idea was to more efficiently show and represent results containing reviews or describing people and places. Since then, Google has expanded the scope to incorporate new kinds of rich snippets for recipes, sport, culture, events, and more.

Bing is also excited to join forces with Yahoo! and Google to deliver this new initiative of schemas essentially for structured data markup. This is a great opportunity for website owners and developers to boost the search ranks and improve visibility on Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. How to make this happen? That’s exactly what we are going to discuss in the next few posts…

Writing a quick post to share something very cool…

Everybody should check this site once!

Trust me this is not addictive but you will be blown away with the creativity that this site has to offer.  Its a beautiful mix of Google and HTML5

Note:  Open the site in Google Chrome for best experience

www.thewildernessdowntown.com

At a new experimental website ‘Many Eyes’, users can upload the data of more technical nature that they want to visualise, then try out sophisticated tools for the purpose of generating interactive displays. These well might range from a correct display of the comparative frequency of words in speeches by politicians like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to maps of relationships in the New Testament.

The website was built in January 2007 by the Thomas J. Watson Research Center scientists. The institution is in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The registered users can judge one another’s work, perhaps visualising the same data with different tools, to discover unexpected patterns in the data.

The website is the brainchild of Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, two IBM researchers at the Cambridge lab. He says, “We want to bring visualisation to a whole new audience – to people who have had relatively lesser ways to create, discuss such use of data.”