Comments on: Google’s HTML Statistics http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/01/25/googles-html-statistics/ EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:39:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tim Finin http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/01/25/googles-html-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-14443 Tim Finin Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:33:41 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=451#comment-14443 It's nice to know we have readers. ... and to know the truth. Mea culpa. It’s nice to know we have readers. … and to know the truth. Mea culpa.

]]> By: Tantek http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/01/25/googles-html-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-14413 Tantek Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:06:13 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=451#comment-14413 "No sign of embedded RDF" true. " or even of microformats." false. 1. The very page you linked to for "Web Authoring Statistics" http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html itself both mentions "microformats.org" and links to http://microformats.org 2. The "Page Headers" page http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/pageheaders.html notes that the XFN microformat is the most popular HTML metadata profile: "...people do use the profile attribute, though. The three most-often used values are http://gmpg.org/xfn/1, http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/, and http://gmpg.org/xfn/11. This makes XFN the most popular HTML metadata profile!" 3. The "a element" page http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/element-a.html found that three of the most popular 'rel' attribute values were microformats: #1 rel-nofollow, #2 rel-license, #5 rel-tag (as mentioned by the previous commenter). Tantek “No sign of embedded RDF”

true.

” or even of microformats.”

false.

1. The very page you linked to for “Web Authoring Statistics” http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html itself both mentions “microformats.org” and links to http://microformats.org

2. The “Page Headers” page http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/pageheaders.html notes that the XFN microformat is the most popular HTML metadata profile: “…people do use the profile attribute, though. The three most-often used values are http://gmpg.org/xfn/1, http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/, and http://gmpg.org/xfn/11. This makes XFN the most popular HTML metadata profile!”

3. The “a element” page http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/element-a.html found that three of the most popular ‘rel’ attribute values were microformats: #1 rel-nofollow, #2 rel-license, #5 rel-tag (as mentioned by the previous commenter).

Tantek

]]> By: Pranam Kolari http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/01/25/googles-html-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-14412 Pranam Kolari Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:47:04 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=451#comment-14412 Microformats, atleast one (rel=tag), does appear in their <a href="http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/element-a.html" rel="nofollow">hyperlink</a> charts. A quote from their analysis -- "The rel attribute is not used all that much, but it is still used enough to matter", also acknowledges their significance :-). It would also be interesting to find what subset of their dataset is contributed by the blogosphere. Microformats, atleast one (rel=tag), does appear in their hyperlink charts. A quote from their analysis — “The rel attribute is not used all that much, but it is still used enough to matter”, also acknowledges their significance :-) . It would also be interesting to find what subset of their dataset is contributed by the blogosphere.

]]> By: ryan king http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/01/25/googles-html-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-14411 ryan king Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:31:13 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=451#comment-14411 Actually, there was some mention of microformats. For example, the second most popular rel value was 'license', from the <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-license" rel="nofollow">rel-license microformat</a>. Actually, there was some mention of microformats. For example, the second most popular rel value was ‘license’, from the rel-license microformat.

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