Google displaying Thread stats in SERPs ?

[Shadab]

Noticed it recently while searching on Google...

Thread stats like : no. of posts, no of unique users, last post date.
are displayed below the page title in the SERPs.

See below (in the 2nd and 3rd listing)

[briansol]

wow! neat-o!

it's showing for my site too

[tavenger5]

wonder how google is parsing that info. I can't find anything for my sites.. hrm

[snakeair]

It's now starting to do the same with my forum. It's nice to see something new when searching google. lol

[beatwin]

Yes a nice innovation by google. I like it.

Beatwin

[Future]

My assumption says this is because our forum posts are indexed by google blogs.

[pguy]

In SERP's I am observing that I am getting this incorrectly -

1> The number of posts on a thread and authors
2> We use dd-mm-yyyy format to display date on our forums. The Google Search engine is picking this up in mm-dd-yyyy format, so if a post has been made on 2nd of June 2009, in search results, the date of last post is shown as 6th February.

e.g. Please see the attachment. The thread in the first result was started on 6th of September and it has more than 1100+ posts, whereas it shows that the last post was made on 6th June 2008 and it has 10 posts by 6 authors!

Any clues on this?

Regards.

[Joe Ward]

Interesting bug. They'll figure this out soon. they have trouble calculating when the date is a month from Jan. to Sep. (less than 10 numerically), and the day is also less than 10.

However, they should be able to flag the "date format" for the site. The first time they encounter a date with the day 10+, or the month 10+, they should expect the format used there to carry through for the rest of the threads.

[pguy]

Interesting bug. They'll figure this out soon. they have trouble calculating when the date is a month from Jan. to Sep. (less than 10 numerically), and the day is also less than 10.

However, they should be able to flag the "date format" for the site. The first time they encounter a date with the day 10+, or the month 10+, they should expect the format used there to carry through for the rest of the threads.

Any way we can fix this via vBSEO?

[Joe Ward]

We might be able to look into date meta tags.