Ask HN: Can we fix the Google links?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3233526
and
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231945
Both articles are identified as being from google.com next to the title. I find this is becoming increasingly misleading as more posts surface from Google Plus conversations (the first one), as well as links to Google Groups, etc.
Do you guys think there would be utility in showing subdomains or some other identifier that would help show that these posts are not actually coming from Google?
Perhaps it's just me, but I tend to see the parenthetical domain as an indicator of not just source domain, but of authorship, as well. Lately, I've been seeing more posts that I find myself thinking, "Google wrote that?!" before clicking on the link to see it's actually coming from a non-Google author.
Anyway, just a thought. google.com isn't the only domain affected here, but it's one of the bigger ones lately.