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few days ago, I’ve received an automated e-mail by Virel.org - a microformat-aware search-engine/web-crawler based in Germany. obviously they indexed the hCard embedded on this blog, cool! currently they seem to restrict their service to personal data (hCard) and events (hCalendar), which brings me to the point: is there actually a service out there making use of hAudio, the microformat for annotating audio-data? I think I remember that Yahoo had something up their sleeves, but haven’t seen any implementation yet… (the reason I’m asking: I’ve been adding hAudio to an earlier project, and am wondering if I should consider adding hAudio to it’s successor, or strip it out) what about other microformat-aware search engines?

anyway, here’s how my indexed hCard is presented by Virel:

people search sure is a controversial topic…while some might find a search engine capable of automatically syndicating all available information on a person creepy, to say the least, others welcome the concept, arguing, that all this information has been online & and for the most part indexed anyway. I belong to the latter, so on the occasion of 123 people’s recent public launch, I took the chance and compared it to Spock, another people search service around since mid-2007. subject of matter - the good old vanity search…

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