visibility of search-engine backing for LMRI or schema.org?

[Paul Libbrecht]

Hello group,

Everytime I hear someone come around schema.org or LRMI, there's a serious consideration because, apparently, this would be backed by major search engines.

It has always looked like that at schema.org and indeed, seems to have an almost good implementation matrix. 

However, can we see this?

I think there was a single post of someone involved in a search engine who posted to the LRMI group (was just my inference, otherwise zero ;-)).

Is there any displayed commitment about the schema.org or LRMI interpretation?

Is there a roadmap?

Say I'm using a located web-client (profile, mobile, ...), and I type "pythagoras interactive exercise 8th", am I being shown everything thinkable? everything appropriate first? I think everyone has a similar scenario on the back of the head, and it involves major search engines. But if we, LRMI group, do not know of such a roadmap, it seems to be just dream.

Paul

[Greg Grossmeier]

Hello Paul (and others),

There is no public commitment to LRMI from the Schema.org group of
search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex).

However, Dan Brickley (on this mailing list) who works for Google on
Schema.org type activities has not shared any concerns with LRMI
integration with Schema.org instead only citing time/resource
constraints (in that, it is merely a function of time until LRMI will be
published on Schema.org).

Now, what happens to the search engines interfaces upon LRMI acceptance
into Schema.org? That is an open question that none have made any
commitments on. Mostly, this is where the search engines need to define
their own competitive advantage, and as such, they can't, legally, agree
to anything within Schema.org (think: antitrust concerns). They could,
theoretically, agree to something to the community (without the
antitrust concerns) but they don't tend to do that.

That's about the best answer I can give right now :)

Greg

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