What is the Dapper Semantify Service?
The Semantify service lets you present a semantically rich version of your site to semantically aware platforms, such as the Yahoo search engine, without changing your site’s pages. For example, in the case described above, when Yahoo’s crawler gets to a page of your site that is powered by Semantify, the crawler will receive back your page, only wherever appropriate, there will be semantic RDFa tagging embedded inside the page. All of your content and links will stay intact, only now, the search engine will understand that “183” appearing on the page has the meaning “calories”, and “two cups of flour” has the meaning “Ingredient”. This will allow your site to be much more accessible and useful, and at the end of the day improve your SEO. As a side bonus, semantic aware applications, like the upcoming Firefox 3.0 browser will be able to automatically enrich the user experience as he browses your site. For example, a semantically marked office address will be optionally augmented by a m