Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

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.

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#> 
>>
>>
>>   
>

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