Consider these stories from today's first page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3233526

and

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231945

Both articles are identified as being from google.com next to the title. I find this is becoming increasingly misleading as more posts surface from Google Plus conversations (the first one), as well as links to Google Groups, etc.

Do you guys think there would be utility in showing subdomains or some other identifier that would help show that these posts are not actually coming from Google?

Perhaps it's just me, but I tend to see the parenthetical domain as an indicator of not just source domain, but of authorship, as well. Lately, I've been seeing more posts that I find myself thinking, "Google wrote that?!" before clicking on the link to see it's actually coming from a non-Google author.

Anyway, just a thought. google.com isn't the only domain affected here, but it's one of the bigger ones lately.