Help Search Engines get Smarter, ROR your Website!

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Help Search Engines get Smarter, ROR your Website!
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I originally picked up ROR from this article on GetSeattle.com. Where it says:

ROR suggests a better approach. Since search engines already come to your site to read text information about your products, it makes sense to also read additional information like prices, image URLs, discounts, etc. This way, you only change the information once, in your ROR file, and that's it. Product information is just one example but it illustrates this issue rather well.

ROR stands for 'Resources of a Resource' and their website describes it as:

ROR is a simple flexible XML and RDF vocabulary for describing the resources of a resource (e.g. objects of a website, entries of a blog or feed, a list of things, a group of people, a directory, etc).
The idea behind ROR is to describe resources by decomposing them into ever smaller resources that can be described more fully and precisely, making it easier for web agent or applications (e.g. search engine spiders, content aggregators, etc) to make sense of the information.

This is a service of addme.com and it looks interesting on my initial look. They have a specification here and it seems some thought has gone into it.

- Y! MyWeb

It sounds just like a froogle

It sounds just like a froogle feed for both products *and* services.

Wonder how hard it'd be to tweak the froogle feed you send to google into this format?


And so what?

As long as none of the major search engines pick up this information I don't really see the use for it. Also, history have proven that only a very small fraction of the web will ever implement a standard like this - either they just won't, they will but make serious mistakes so it don't work or they will but they abuse it and feed wrong information in order to rank well for non-relevan terms. Hell, not even simple META-tags have proven to work so why on earth should this?

To do something like this it needs to be on some kind of a "trusted" and editorially overviewd format such as PFI and Froogle.