- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:19:51 +0100
- To: martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org
- CC: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>, public-lod@w3.org, semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>
Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: > Google has just changed the wording of the documentation: > > http://knol.google.com/k/google-rich-snippets/google-rich-snippets/32la2chf8l79m/1# > > > The mentioning of cloaking risk is removed. While this is not final > clearance, > it is a nice sign that our concerns are heard. Great work! Doing the right thing is what matters, and I do believe that Google (as they've just demonstrated), Yahoo! etc. all want to make the Web a better and smarter place etc. :-) Kingsley > > Best > Martin > > > Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: >> Dear all: >> Fyi - I am in contact with Google as for the clarification of what >> kind of empty div/span elements are considered acceptable in the >> context of RDFa. It may take a few days to get an official statement. >> Just so that you know it is being taken care of... >> >> Martin >> >> >> >> Mark Birbeck wrote: >>> Hi Martin, >>> >>> >>>> b) download RDFa snippet that just represents the RDF/XML content >>>> (i.e. such >>>> that it does not have to be consolidated with the "presentation >>>> level" part >>>> of the Web page. >>>> >>> >>> By coincidence, I just read this: >>> >>> Hidden div's -- don't do it! >>> It can be tempting to add all the content relevant for a rich snippet >>> in one place on the page, mark it up, and then hide the entire block >>> of text using CSS or other techniques. Don't do this! Mark up the >>> content where it already exists. Google will not show content from >>> hidden div's in Rich Snippets, and worse, this can be considered >>> cloaking by Google's spam detection systems. [1] >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> [1] >>> <http://knol.google.com/k/google-rich-snippets/google-rich-snippets/32la2chf8l79m/1#> >>> >>> >>> >> > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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