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Yahoo! Pushing Common Tag. So What Is Common Tag?

Search Engine Land takes a hard-nosed, practical approach to understanding and explaining what all the noise from Yahoo! about "Common Tag" actually means.

Yahoo! has been talking a lot about a new tagging format, which it turns out is really just an applied use of RDFa.  Like Google, Yahoo! is dipping a toe in the Semantic Web pool.  Their goals aren't immediately obvious, but Vanessa Fox at Search Engine Land makes a few well-informed guesses. 

Click through for a reasoned, but sceptical view to balance against the admittedly vague hype coming from the search engine's pitch-men.

Posted 16 Jun 2009 8:35 AM by OpenAmp
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simplify3 wrote re: Yahoo! Pushing Common Tag. So What Is Common Tag?
on 20 Jun 2009 6:44 AM

I've CommonTag enabled my website.  I think the documentation is scarce,  so I'm not 100% sure if I implemented it correctly.  Only time will tell I guess!  

But I'm wanting to support standards as much as possible for a little website. --Ken

mikepetit wrote re: Yahoo! Pushing Common Tag. So What Is Common Tag?
on 21 Jun 2009 8:11 AM

I also found the documentation kind of scarce...it'll be interesting to see whether Common Tag emerges as a real standard. Good to see Google and Yahoo positioning themselves to fight it out in SemWeb.

sderose wrote re: Yahoo! Pushing Common Tag. So What Is Common Tag?
on 22 Jun 2009 9:05 AM

Hopefully someone will put out a decent validator so people can check conformance -- that is, assuming the spec itself is written well enough to enable it....

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