Google search results on mahara.org don't display correct information

[Kristina Hoeppner]

The information for search results for the number of post, authors and last update in the search result list of the Google search is incorrect. Is that an indexing problem? It would be better if the info was not displayed than display incorrect information because if you know that something had been posted to a forum after the date of "Last post", you don't necessarily check that forum to find your answer but it is most likely to appear there.

An example is the attached screenshot which links to http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=1057 where there are definitely more than 3 authors, 2 posts and also some in 2010.

[François Marier (fmarier)]

Richard looked into it and it looks like a bug on Google's end. So there's probably nothing we can do about this other than doing our own searching (e.g. Solr, Xapian) and not using Google.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Were it possible to turn off the "3 posts - 2 authors - Last post: 3 Nov 2010" line because that's the confusing one?

[Melissa Newman (melissa-l)]

Actually, this is a very simple fix. You just need to use schema.org coding the HTMl:

http://schema.org/Person
http://schema.org/Article
http://schema.org/BlogPosting

Specifically you want the "interactionCount".
<span itemprop="interactionCount">3 posts</span> - <span itemProp="interactionCount">2 authors</span> - Last post:

I can't find the code for "last post" or whatever it is called.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

We are going to implemented the Elasticsearch as then all content will be searched.