🆚 Microformats vs. SearchAction

Microformats are a set of defined HTML classes and attributes created to serve as descriptive metadata about an element, representing commonly published things like people, events, blog posts, reviews, and so on.

SearchAction is a structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.

Before November 2024, it was used by Google to enable the "Sitelinks Search Box" feature, which displayed a search bar for a website directly within the search results snippet. However, since Google deprecated this feature, there is no evidence that other search engines or apps currently support it.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Semantic Markup category.
• ⭐ 8th most popular in Germany in the Semantic Markup category.
• ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the Semantic Markup category.
• ⭐ 8th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Semantic Markup category.
• ⭐ 8th most popular in Spain in the Semantic Markup category.

• ⭐ 4th most popular in Vietnam in the Standards category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Ukraine in the Standards category.
• ⭐ 5th most popular in France in the Standards category.
• ⭐ 5th most popular in France in the Semantic Markup category.
• ⭐ 5th most popular in India in the Semantic Markup category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Microformats technology profile

• SearchAction technology profile
• W3C company profile