hReview is a

microformat Microformats (μF) are a set of defined HTML classes created to serve as consistent and descriptive metadata about an element, designating it as representing a certain type of data (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, events ...

for publishing reviews of books, music, films, restaurants, businesses, holidays, etc.Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 (2007) by John Allsopp p. 200 using

(X)HTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages. It mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are formulated. While HTML, prior ...

on web pages, using HTML classes and ''rel'' attributes. On 12 May 2009,

Google Google LLC () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, ar ...

announced that they would be parsing the hReview,

hCard hCard is a microformat for publishing the contact details (which might be no more than the name) of people, companies, organizations, and places, in HTML, Atom, RSS, or arbitrary XML. The hCard microformat does this using a 1:1 representation o ...

and hProduct microformats, and using them to populate search result pages.

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External links

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