Search engine indexers are aware of (X)HTML and know what to look for when indexing those documents, but if the indexers were tuned to look for RDFa and WAI-ARIA Roles, would the semantics of the document be quite so important? If arbitrary XML on the web is ever going to happen then machine-readable annotations will be an important driving factor for content indexing, and the explosion in client-side XSLT that will follow.
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While the advertising deal between Google and Yahoo! does not announce a formal "merger" of the two companies, it nonetheless signals a profound shift in the online search world, and certainly increases the likelihood that the two companies will begin a more active partnership across a broad front of activities, to the significant detriment of the company that needed a partnership most desperately with Yahoo! ... Microsoft.




