The idea of microformats is giving some known structure to much of the unstructured data used in pages across the web. The idea has a lot of potential, but I d

The idea of microformats is giving some known structure to much of the unstructured data used in pages across the web. The idea has a lot of potential, but I don't know how much they're used in practice. There are a few formats and microdata can be in the body of the html itself as attributes or separate as JSON-LD. Google supports microformats for use cases like contact information and restaurant reviews [1][2]. If they were used ubiquitously, there could be an obscene amount of power in essentially being able to run one SQL query across different data sets on multiple websites. [1]: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-struc... [2]: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/structured_data#using-microformats https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/structured_...