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GoodRelations - The Web Vocabulary for E-Commerce

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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.

[goodrelations] GoodRelations in Google Rich Snippets: gr:validThrough now correctly handled & mandatory

Martin Hepp martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org
Mon Jun 6 17:26:20 CEST 2011


Dear all:

I just found out that Google is now correctly using gr:validThrough for price information:

You MUST indicate a validity date that has not yet lapsed for gr:UnitPriceSpecification in order to be accepted as a valid price.

<h1>Canon Offer</h1>
	<span about="#offer" typeof="gr:Offering">
<!-- Google-specific Review vocab -->
	<span rel="v:hasReview">
 		<span typeof="v:Review-aggregate">
   		Average rating: <span property="v:rating">4.4</span>,
     	based on <span property="v:count">89</span> reviews
 		</span><br />
	</span>
...
  <span typeof="gr:UnitPriceSpecification">
            <span property="gr:hasCurrency">USD</span>
            <span property="gr:hasCurrencyValue" datatype="xsd:float" content="899.00">$899.00</span> (Valid from :
            <span property="gr:validFrom" content="2009-12-30T23:59:59Z" datatype="xsd:dateTime">December 30, 2009, </span>through 
  --->>>>>  <span property="gr:validThrough" content="2014-12-30T23:59:59Z" datatype="xsd:dateTime">December 30, 2014</span>)<br />
	    <span rel="gr:valueAddedTaxIncluded" content="true" datatype="xsd:boolean">VAT included</span>
        </span><br />

This again shows that Google is increasing its support of GoodRelations.

Best wishes

Martin Hepp





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