one of the comments on the techcrunch article:
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watch microformats quickly become a spam vector
we had this once before, called the meta tag
then everyone put adult terms in the meta tag to juice ranking
so the search engines stopped indexing meta tags
now the problem has just been moved to a new format, in a year people will be lamenting how microformat spam is spoiling results
sorry, humans cannot be trusted to describe their own data
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and I would have to agree for the most part... except that yahoo still pays attention to meta tags and it wasn't adult terms in meta tags, but just overall keyword stuffing that fuxored em... still I thought the comparison to meta tags was interesting and deserved a mention...
anyway, the potential for spam is definitely there depending on how much weight yahoo gives microformats and how broadly they index/import the data...
I will be watching this closely as depending on how it's implemented it may provide some great opportunities to make some coin...