The Yahoo! Developer Network recently held an event in Paris to introduce SearchMonkey to local developers. I was on hand to help discuss microformats. I’ve got a brief write up of the event on the YDN blog: SearchMonkey in Paris.
SearchMonkey
SearchMonkey allows developers to create enhanced search result presentations for a web site. These appear when a user installs the easy to create application and then does a search query that provides the module as part of the normal search result.
Yahoo provides microformatted data to the SearchMonkey application at run time. This allows the developer to add great content while still building a very quick application. I’ll write more on this later as I think it is a great usage of Microformats at the user level instead of the developer level.
Beyond SearchMonkey, it’s great to know that search engines really are paying attention to this data. You’ll learn a lot about your site and its microformats as you build your first SearchMonkey application. Give it a try, it shouldn’t take you more than an hour to put together your first application.
La Cantine and the Paris Developer Scene
The event was held at a great space: La Cantine. This is a cross between a cafe and cooperative space for startups to use as an office, meeting space, and development center. It was a pleasure to meet the large crowd that turned out for the night.
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