Google’s Authorship Fail: How Truman Capote Was Credited As A NYT Writer 28 Years After His Death by Matt McGee If you happened to do certain abortion-related searches in the past few days, you might’ve been surprised to see the late Truman Capote getting Google+ Authorship credit for an article from The New York Times. What makes it odd, of course, is that Capote died in 1984. He wrote numerous classics that showed up on the Times bestseller list but, as far as I know, he never actually wrote for the Times itself — and he certainly didn’t write an article that was first published in 2010. Capote also died a couple decades too soon to have a Google+ account, which makes this search result — shared with us by Times columnist Noam Cohen — all the more unusual. So, how’d it happen?
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Google’s Authorship Fail: How Truman Capote Was Credited As A NYT Writer 28 Years After His Death

by Matt McGee

If you happened to do certain abortion-related searches in the past few days, you might’ve been surprised to see the late Truman Capote getting Google+ Authorship credit for an article from The New York Times.

What makes it odd, of course, is that Capote died in 1984. He wrote numerous classics that showed up on the Times bestseller list but, as far as I know, he never actually wrote for the Times itself — and he certainly didn’t write an article that was first published in 2010.

Capote also died a couple decades too soon to have a Google+ account, which makes this search result — shared with us by Times columnist Noam Cohen — all the more unusual.

So, how’d it happen?

Source: searchengineland.com