[wp-hackers] Google's insight on Codex Articles

[Haluk Karamete]

I'm totally fine with whoever pics show up there. Plus I always admired his
hair style. :)

I was just trying to get to the bottom of how the heck Google pulls that
relationship off without a meta tag.




On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> We did some testing in a case where Mark Jaiquith's authorship info
> was showing up on an article.
>
> It's definitely the "by name" line at the end of the article that
> causes it to happen. In cases where there is more than one byline,
> Google isn't as likely to make the bad assumption.
>
> As yet, we do not have a good solution for this, but it hasn't really
> been a pressing matter.
>
> -Otto
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Haluk Karamete
> <halukkaramete at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Was that codex article written by him to begin with?
> > I think those articles do not belong to an individual as it's the result
> of
> > an collaborated effort.
> > The fact that Google makes it appear like, the article is written by that
> > person is not only misleading but also prone to errors. I'm surprised
> that
> > this is really what's happening here.
> >
> > Here is another article but this one does NOT show his picture even
> though
> > his name also appears under the external resources. Go figure! :)
> >
> >
> https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=settings+api&oq=settings+&gs_l=serp.3.0.35i39j0i20j0j0i20j0l6.127824.128865.0.130365.9.8.0.0.0.0.198.926.2j6.8.0....0...1c.1.32.serp..5.4.319.FH4Chodd4Xw
> >
> > http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_API
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Andrew Nacin <wp at andrewnacin.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Yeah, we tracked this down a few months ago for another article. It's
> the
> >> "by Konstantin Kovshenin" in the "External Resources" section that
> Google
> >> picks up on.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Haluk Karamete <
> halukkaramete at gmail.com
> >> >wrote:
> >>
> >> > This is not a WP question but I just got curious this morning.
> >> >
> >> > I was doing a google search on "get_template_part".
> >> > First hit ( as the screenshot I attached illustrates ) was showing
> >> > Konstantin's codex post and his pic.
> >> > Knowing him and how much he loves and knows about get_template_part, I
> >> was
> >> > not surprised much that I saw him up there.
> >> >
> >> > But what puzzled me was the fact that it was a codex article, but yet
> his
> >> > picture was lined up with that. If it was an article from his web
> site,
> >> > that would not be surprising.
> >> >
> >> > I've examined the codex page, (which is located at
> >> > http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_template_part )
> and I
> >> > could not see his name as the author of this page;
> >> > The only section on that page that had to do with his name was the
> >> section
> >> > titled "External Resources" and that was about it.
> >> >
> >> > Then I dived into the source HTML to see, maybe there is an meta tag
> or
> >> > something of that sort for Google bot to pick that insight. But, that
> >> > wasn't the case neither.
> >> >
> >> > And this is happening to many other codex articles.
> >> >
> >> > I'm perplexed at the Google's insight in being able to author's pic
> pic
> >> on
> >> > those codex articles - even though the HTML source has nothing to say
> on
> >> > that.
> >> >
> >> > Anyone has an idea?
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