GoodRelations is a standardized vocabulary for product, price, and company data that can (1) be embedded into existing static and dynamic Web pages and that (2) can be processed by other computers. This increases the visibility of your products and services in the latest generation of search engines, recommender systems, and other novel applications.
Martin Hepp
martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org
Tue Aug 2 12:47:16 CEST 2011
Dear all: Google seems to have fixed this problem - see http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tradoria.de%2Fernaehrung%2Fpro-sana-l-glutamin-1-beutel-500g-21797.html&view= and the attached screenshot - the price is correctly shown as EUR 11.99. Best wishes Martin Hepp -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Screen shot 2011-08-02 at 12.44.15 PM.png Type: image/png Size: 58869 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ebusiness-unibw.org/pipermail/goodrelations/attachments/20110802/17ac4ad8/attachment.png> -------------- next part -------------- On Jun 21, 2011, at 9:07 AM, Martin Hepp wrote: > Dear all: > > There is a small bug in Google's Rich Snippet testing tool: > > If the currency is "EUR", then the price may be rendered incorrectly - in some cases, the digits following the delimiter (99.xx - the fractional part) are treated as if they were part of the main digits (i.e. the integer part). > > Example: > > foo:price a gr:UnitPriceSpecification ; > gr:hasCurrency "EUR"^^xsd:string ; > gr:hasCurrencyValue "99.00"^^xsd:float . > > can, in some cases, show up as > > EUR 9900.00 > > Google is working on the issue and we assume at this point that this is just a bug in the validator, not in the actual Google rendering component. > > Other currencies are not affected, as far as we know. > > As a work-around, we recommend that you remove the fractional part from currency values if it is ".00". > > So for those values, please use > > foo:price a gr:UnitPriceSpecification ; > gr:hasCurrency "EUR"^^xsd:string ; > gr:hasCurrencyValue "99.00"^^xsd:float . > > or in RDFa > > <div rel="gr:hasPriceSpecification"> > <div typeof="gr:UnitPriceSpecification"> > <div property="gr:hasCurrency" content="EUR" datatype="xsd:string"></div> > <div property="gr:hasCurrencyValue" content="99" datatype="xsd:float"></div> > </div> > > instead of > > <div rel="gr:hasPriceSpecification"> > <div typeof="gr:UnitPriceSpecification"> > <div property="gr:hasCurrency" content="EUR" datatype="xsd:string"></div> > <div property="gr:hasCurrencyValue" content="99.00" datatype="xsd:float"></div> > </div> > > This is just a precautionary measure. At this moment, we have not seen this bug in actual Google search results, just in the testing tool. > > > Best wishes > > Martin Hepp > > > _______________________________________________ > goodrelations mailing list > goodrelations at ebusiness-unibw.org > http://ebusiness-unibw.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/goodrelations