Ask HN: Micro-formats, are they still relevant/useful?

[drew_kutchar]

I'm in the process of building a social site and I was wondering if microformats are still relevant and or useful? Should I bother implementing them?

Thanks!

[apowell]

Microformats are still supported, but they've been replaced by HTML5 microdata. If you're developing a new website, microdata is the way to go.

The microdata schemas supported by the three major search engines are documented at http://www.schema.org. Also, Google still supports microformats: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...

[falava]

Google, Bing and Yahoo! have recently started http://schema.org/ a shared markup vocabulary based on microformats.

If some of your data can fit in one of those formats you could benefit from a enhanced presentation in the search engine results pages.

Example: http://schema.org/Recipe — google "spicy pork recipe", I see some results with photos, calories, etc.