Friday, August 5, 2011

Google and G+

    One of my previous blog I talked about the Semantics and Search Engines. Recently I noticed some change in Google's search results. I doubted that it is another Semantic that is being parsed by Google.

Search for "Twitter firehose" and see the results, there'll be bunch of blogs and the author images will appear to its right.


   I checked the blog in the first link which has the author's image. The HTML has neat semantics with "url, photo" texts in the 'class' attribute.
   I got curious to know the exact details and went to other links listed by Google. But they dont have the similar semantics, or NO semantics about the Image! Did some R&D on that HTML page itself to see whether that image is referred in some other means... no it wasn't! Then I happened to notice the author's image is different from Google's result page and the actual blog page, yet they are same person!

  And then I took the simplest step: by clicking on the image in the blog page. I went to their Google+ profile! Now I am curious on how the blog and G+ is linked... yet to figure out...

Cheers