Google Search

 Google Search  is how Google started, a web search engine, and supports indexing and highlighting results with microformats, like IndieWeb event posts.

Google is primarily known for its dominant search engine.

Google Supports Microformats
Google search will highlight results with microformats like those in IndieWeb posts.

Microformats OneBox
Publishing a page with microformats can cause it to show up in Google Search’s OneBox feature, e.g. here is an event that came from an IndieWeb event post on tantek.com ( with only h-event and classic hCalendar, no RDFa/microdata/JSONLD ) when searching for just "indieweb events" Note the following information from microformats:
 * event name, start time & date, location venue with address

Event Search results
Clicking the "➡️ Search more events" link in the above OneBox navigates to Google Event Search which shows more detailed results for the Indieweb event: Note the cursor was hovering over the "🌎 More Info" link in the right column which the status bar in the lower left indicates links to the original event post on tantek.com, as does the entire "undefined MORE INFO" in the lower right corner. In particular note the following information from microformats:
 * event name, start time & date, location venue with address, author, original permalink
 * author icon, full name

Google Web History
You can save your Google search history by explicitly turning on Google Web History And then look up your past Google searches:
 * https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/54068?hl=en&ref_topic=14148
 * https://history.google.com/history/lookup (requires login)

Search History
Google collects your search history for the purpose of gathering data for ad serving.

They do this whether or not you are logged in (e.g. with cookies), and whether or not your have opted into Google Web History (see below), though you can also opt-out of all ad-customization.

There is something apparently that shows your demographic and psychographic buckets according to this data, but only at a high level. It should be browsable and searchable.

Apparently they scrub logs after somewhere between 6 and 18 months, and much of the extra details stored in history they don't store at all, or only temporarily (until the log savers get to it, i.e. days).

Featured Snippet
Aside from microformats support (see above), sometimes Google Search returns a result with what they call a "Featured Snippet" for a longer query, not necessarily tied to any explicit markup, just using their own algorithms.

E.g. a query for "how many characters does a URL count as in a tweet"

results in a large Featured Snippet of "23 characters" with longer explanation in a box:



Some IndieWeb pages show up in featured snippets as well, e.g. a (2022-04-04) query for "site-deaths" shows the full  sentence and featured image at the top.



Aaron and Tantek met via Google Search
On 2009-09-23, IndieWebCamp co-founders Aaron Parecki and Tantek Çelik met at an event Tantek organized, that Aaron found, via Googling for that date and meetup san francisco on the day of.

Aaron Parecki was visiting San Francisco (from Portland), used Google on 2009-09-23 to search for meetups in San Francisco, and found:
 * http://microformats.org/wiki/events/2009-09-23-weekly-dinner-sf

Aaron showed up, met a bunch of the microformats community in San Francisco:

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2574/4024429914_f25a56b711_z.jpg

Including Tantek. They kept up remotely and met again at the Federated Social Web Summit 2010, which provided inspiration for them to co-found the IndieWebCamp community, and co-organize (with Amber Case and Crystal Beasley) the first IndieWebCamp two-day event in 2011.