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

106 points by msujaws ↗ HN
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).

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

ComputerGuru
Thank you. Works like a dream on Chrome. Appreciate the www removal, too.

I actually really, really like it. If anyone cares to see, this is what my homepage currently looks like with this extension: http://i.imgur.com/qJ8KY.png

EDIT - Question to PG: why does "david.weebly.com" show up as a subdomain listing on the HN homepage without this, while other subdomains don't?

josscrowcroft
Fantastic script, simple and does the job. three thumbs up!
nostrademons
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.
jrockway
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.

antics
It is possible to both know that the Google blog is hosted on Blogger and to find this disorienting. When I first saw google.com listed as the domain I initially just assumed it was official Google communication, temporarily "forgetting" that their blog is at Blogger. I did know this, but I did not think about it before I clicked the link.

Further, it may not be the case that it is better to email relevant authorities. If this gets posted here and is given a lot of attention by the community, it may cause said relevant authorities to sit up and think about the problem (albeit, again), which is a consequence that is almost certainly not going to be elicited by one more email from a single user.

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