Can Google+ posts be marked with plus.Google.com instead of Google.com?

by msujaws on 12/27/2011, 3:21 AM with comments

It's a little misleading that Google+ posts are annotated with (google.com) next to them when they are not official Google communication.

Google+ posts should follow the same pattern that WordPress.com posts take, for example (foobar.wordpress.com).

  • by yahelc on 12/27/2011, 3:54 AM

    Totally coincidentally, I was just working on a User Script that does this for all Hacker News posts; basically, puts the full, unqualified hostname in the parenthesis after the post. It's surprisingly simple.

    https://gist.github.com/1522657

    (UserScripts.org is failing me. To install, simply go to that gist and click "Raw" on Chrome, or on Firefox with Greasemonkey installed).

    EDIT: I've made some changes since initially posting, including removing the www. when it appears, and not making unnecessary DOM alterations if the domain wouldn't be changing. Also did a little bit of readability clean-up.

  • by drp on 12/27/2011, 4:16 AM

    I submitted this under feature requests a couple of years ago. It's consistently been in the top 5 since then. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996374

  • by nostrademons on 12/27/2011, 4:01 AM

    Similarly, I'd like for Google Groups posts to be groups.google.com and not google.com. Hell, posts should just show the whole hostname instead of just the organization.

  • by ryan-allen on 12/27/2011, 4:27 AM

    I'd like it taken the full step further: don't strip sub-domains (so if we have a link to eep.posturous.com, display it as such, and not strip the 'eep').

  • by aaronpk on 12/27/2011, 3:50 AM

    Agreed. This has misled me on a number of occasions.

  • by jrockway on 12/27/2011, 4:02 AM

    What official communication does Google put on google.com? Their blog is at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/.

    Also, wouldn't it be better to email pg directly with concerns like this? We probably don't need to have much discussion about it; nobody will mind if links start saying plus.google.com instead of google.com. It's just a matter of tweaking the config.

  • by ronnier on 12/27/2011, 4:43 AM
  • by tzury on 12/27/2011, 4:46 AM

    I think that should apply for all domains, not only google.com, as well as for all sub-domains which are not www.