Some savvy webmasters were inspecting the HTML markup behind the last Google Webmaster Blog post and noticed the markup used on the posted by John Mueller hyperlink had a bit of extra code for rel=agent. Here is a screen shot of the code:
Paul Shaprio asked about it on Twitter after noticing it, saying "Weird, probably insignificant observation... JohnMu is tagged with ?rel=agent." Indeed.
Weird, probably insignificant observation... In this post, http://t.co/GnTtTARU6a @JohnMu is tagged with ?rel=agent (http://t.co/0o7iGmN9vH)
— Paul Shapiro (@fighto) September 11, 2014Often Googlers, especially on the webmaster blog, add markup to see if we are looking. It is Google humor, that is how Googlers have fun.
John replied:
@rustybrick @fighto Oops, that looks like a typo.
— John Mueller (@JohnMu) September 11, 2014Yea right, a typo. :)
As you know, Google has destroyed authorship so it would have said rel=author but John changed it to rel=agent to mess with us.
Love this stuff.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Update: Now John changed it to google.com/+johnmueller?rel=AUTHOR
