Boy, Did Google, Yahoo and Bing Screw That Up!

Click the image above to see the gaffe!

Being the geek that I am, I was looking at an article over on SearchEngineWatch about this new collaborative effort by the major search engine players Google, Yahoo and Bing.  The article is about new web standards that they are trying to get web developers to implement on the sites that they build (which is a great idea BTW) so that the SERPS can index that content better. 

Pretty cool huh?

So I went over to Schema.org to check out the site and all of the great info that they have regarding standards.  When I got there I thought that it kind of looked like a site built with Joomla! so being the Joomla! geek that I am I took a look at the source code to see if I was right.  I then noticed that thier "better search and index structured markup" had some goofs in it.  If fact, the homepage alone has 19 errors on it according to the W3C validator at the time of this writing.

If you look at the graphic above you'll notice that there is an extra closing of the head tag and quite a few other markup errors.

Overall, just having a bit of fun at their expense on an otherwise uneventful Friday afternoon!

Here's a link to the original article by Thom Craver at SearchEngineWatch.com