Haven’t seen this one before a SERP where google is showing Total Authors, last post data, and total number of posts [seo malpractice]
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Seems like kind of an odd inclusion really. How many Googlers do you think will have absolutely no clue what “x posts” and “x authors” means?
I really do, however, like the “Last Post” portion of it. Too many times I’ve trusted a forum thread URL for an answer only to find out it’s from 2005
I actually like this info for forum results. The date information could b especially relevant. +1 for click/no-click value.
I think it’s a useful inclusion for Google, I would be interested to know if this was when you were logged into your Igoogle account or Googleling annonymously. I have 1 Igoogle account that has Digg like icons, as I got selected for a bucket test, wonder if this is a wide release?
Hmm interesting. Yet another questionable Google test?
yeh i noticed this yesterday and blogged it, seems an interesting idea, with google track record of getting dates wrong in their serps be interesting to see how it works out
It’s a very useful addition actually. And as far as I have checked, Google is showing this only for forum posts. In Michael’s example above, you can see that both the results he marked with red arrows are from a forum post. Do any other forum related search (like ’sarah palin environment forum’) to confirm.
Also, I am getting this whether I sign in to Google or not. So it maybe that this will be integrated into all researches.
Means we won’t have to go to the result to find out when the post was active and how many posts there are in that thread. Maybe, Google would also take into account the number of users who posted and the number of posts in that thread as ranking factor (like more posts and more authors can mean a hot,popular thread but not sure, just a wild shot). Anyone observed anything like this?
One more thing I just noticed. Google isn’t showing the year for threads that had a last post in 2008 (current year).
My biggest concern would be that, a site may seem out dated even if the piece itself is timeless.
Is it accurate? If so, very cool. If not . . . not so cool.
Didn’t notice that. It’s definitely useful info instead of wasting time clicking on the link only to find out that it’s an old thread.
Think they’ll get to where they can tell I interviewed two people and mention that in the SERP?
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