Pingerati – microformat pinging
Ping a page with your microformat on it from pingerati, and within moments you can be searched using the technorati kitchens’ microformat search (mine).
Really easy, really simple. So, could Google or Windows Live use something like this to potentially increase relevence?
While microformats are a neat and easy way to markup data within a page, how do you prevent spoofing? Imagine a page of names and fake contact details of relatively famous people, pinged to a search engine that then presents the spoof (spam) content as clickable links to who-knows-what.
Microformats can certainly be an easy way to expose data to machines, but how do you verify that the data is accurate, or that you trust it?
We seem to be in a position where the building of a useful system requires people to immediately start thinking about spam and how to curb it? Rather depressing really.
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