PDF files with authors names in SERPs
(View post)TOMHTML ![[PersonRank 10] [PersonRank 10]](image/postrank/10.gif) | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12 years ago • 8,951 views |
When you are looking for PDF files, Google now displays authors of the PDF file and publication date. Only when it is available. google.com/search?q=site%3Amem ...
It may be related to Google Scholar ("cited by...") google.com/search?hl=en&q= ...
Have you ever seen that before? |
Above 1 comments were made in the forum before this was blogged,
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Philipp Lenssen ![[PersonRank 10] [PersonRank 10]](image/postrank/10.gif) | 12 years ago # |
Ionut suspects the data source for this to be Google Scholar: googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008 ... |
Christoph ![[PersonRank 1] [PersonRank 1]](image/postrank/1.gif) | 12 years ago # |
I can't see the author's name in the examples mentioned above. Seems not to be rolled out to everybody. |
Christoph ![[PersonRank 1] [PersonRank 1]](image/postrank/1.gif) | 12 years ago # |
Update: I don't see the author's it in the example query results but it in other result pages. It seems to depend on the search, if you can see the author.
For example I can see it here
google.ch/search?q=site%3Asta. ...
but not here
google.com/search?q=%22h%C3%A4 ...
even if the first result is the same document. |
Scott ![[PersonRank 0] [PersonRank 0]](image/postrank/0.gif) | 12 years ago # |
I see it on a .htm result when doing a search for BMI.
google.com/search?hl=en&q= ...
The result from the CDC shows "by P Room", which could be Press Room as I couldn't find a P Room anywhere on the page.
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Stefan ![[PersonRank 0] [PersonRank 0]](image/postrank/0.gif) | 12 years ago # |
I don't like this function. May not be that useful as many documents don't use real authors. I hope that they've got filters for the most popular writers of our century, e.g. 'GoLive' and 'Administrator'. ;-) |
Juha-Matti Laurio ![[PersonRank 10] [PersonRank 10]](image/postrank/10.gif) | 12 years ago # |
Works here, and absolutely this is a new feature.
When searching with Google.fi the text is localized too: "kirjoittanut P Belhouchat – 2004"
It appears that Google can digg the year document was saved too |
Colin Colehour ![[PersonRank 10] [PersonRank 10]](image/postrank/10.gif) | 12 years ago # |
This feature seems to work with PDF, PS, HTML, Doc ...
[PS] google.com/search?hl=en&q= ...
[HTML] google.com/search?hl=en&q= ...
[DOC] google.com/search?hl=en&q= ...
This must be a Google Scholar feature that was pushed to Google.com searches this month. |
Steven ![[PersonRank 0] [PersonRank 0]](image/postrank/0.gif) | 12 years ago # |
Not only PDF files. |
Philipp Lenssen ![[PersonRank 10] [PersonRank 10]](image/postrank/10.gif) | 12 years ago # |
(I added an update, thanks!) |
Ionut Alex. Chitu ![[PersonRank 10] [PersonRank 10]](image/postrank/10.gif) | 12 years ago # |
This has nothing to do with the PDF/DOC/HTML files. Google uses data from Google Scholar to improve the results for scientific paper.
Some people thought Google uses metadata from the files: businessol.com/seo-blog/2008/0 ... |
Philipp Lenssen ![[PersonRank 10] [PersonRank 10]](image/postrank/10.gif) | 12 years ago # |
Ionut, where does the name "H Another" come from? (I show it in the update.) |
Ionut Alex. Chitu ![[PersonRank 10] [PersonRank 10]](image/postrank/10.gif) | 12 years ago # |
Well, these links might provide an answer: scholar.google.com/intl/en/sch ... scholar.google.com/intl/en/sch ...
"We rely on a document's layout to extract metadata, citations and other information which plays a significant role in relevance ranking."
H Another is most likely the result of a bug. As you can see from this search: scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ ... Google doesn't find the author correctly all the time. There's an author called "H another error enters Diffey’s" for a text that includes in the middle:
"However another error enters Diffey’s calculations when he assumes that 600 to..."
There's another author called "HOMLT Another" from a text that includes "How One Mistake Leads To Another" as part of the title.
 img135.imageshack.us/img135/73 ...
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Roger Browne ![[PersonRank 10] [PersonRank 10]](image/postrank/10.gif) | 12 years ago # |
I can imagine that Knol's "Real Names" will appear in this field in the future. |
Ionut Alex. Chitu ![[PersonRank 10] [PersonRank 10]](image/postrank/10.gif) | 12 years ago # |
Another weird result: google.com/search?q=css
 img137.imageshack.us/img137/10 ...
(the page includes "Appendix B. Changes from CSS1")
The scholar results are hilarious: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl= ...
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Ionut Alex. Chitu ![[PersonRank 10] [PersonRank 10]](image/postrank/10.gif) | 12 years ago # |
More examples of papers: google.com/search?q='Citing+Ar ... |
Juha-Matti Laurio ![[PersonRank 10] [PersonRank 10]](image/postrank/10.gif) | 12 years ago # |
The example search blogoscoped.com/forum/138085.h ...
comparing Google.ch and Google.com gives the author information here, when using Google.com link too. |
Jonathan Wall ![[PersonRank 0] [PersonRank 0]](image/postrank/0.gif) | 12 years ago # |
A similar feature that I just saw-- is Google treating forum results differently? For example, when I search google.com/search?hl=en&sa ... , I get results that say things like "20 posts – 8 authors" at the top. |
Juha-Matti Laurio ![[PersonRank 10] [PersonRank 10]](image/postrank/10.gif) | 12 years ago # |
I can't see these post & author information with the Google.com test URL listed from my country |
This thread is locked as it's old... but you can create a new thread in the forum. | |