Google made up Artificially Generates author names to connect to some of its search results snippets, according to Lily Ray who posted some examples on Twitter. She displayed names like ALP Dull, R Wine, W Wine, and others that were taken from the material but were not real names.
She said she’s working on a health/medical content website that lists the names of its authors but doesn’t use organized data. “With the header tags on this list, Google generates artificial author names and displayed them with SERP and Google Scholar,” for some of the snippets she said. observed snippets “google generates artificial authors names based on header tags on the pages and shows them at SERP and Google Scholar.”
When I asked Lily what was going on, she responded with the following quote:
This is a health/medical website with expert material and Google Scholar often cites its pages? Despite the authors’ and medical reviewers’ names being mentioned on the page. The wrong name of the authors is also seen on the Google Scholar and the SERP snippet. Google seems to have trouble finding the author of the material. This may be because the names of authors are presented on this site in an extraordinary section of the page template or because the pages of the article are entirely free of organized information. The attribute “author” cannot be used by Google because it is not present.
But we do know that Google is no longer using the author’s authority to figure out who wrote a piece of content now and they are using different methods to decide who wrote a page and these methods or algorithms may often be wrong.