...Computing.net was showing the text Discussion forum: 3 posts - 2 authors - Dec 8, 2001 below the title link. In this case I can see 4 posts on the Computing.net page, but in other cases the count is correct. While Google makes this experiment " which they may currently only show to a small portion of users " work for different types of discussion boards, it does not work for each and every forum (it does not work for the forum here, for instance).

To join this experiment, go to a a search result page like this one and enter the following into the address bar, hit return, and then search as normal (you can later delete your Google cookies to revert this, but please note I dont know if theres any side-effects to the experiment):

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