I am wondering if Google should stop trying to show enhanced snippets without the aid of enhancing those snippets via microformats and RDFa markups. I often see complaints, since Google began showing dates in snippets and other data in snippets that Google was wrong. It is often the case, when you look at post counts, dates, comments and other data points labeled in the search results where Google is wrong.

Of course, if you are marking up your HTML then by all means but not automatically when it is all so often wrong.

Bill Slawski wrote a complaint about this. It made it on Sphinn and Google Webmaster Help, where Googler JohnMu replied.

His complaint:

He is not the only one in this boat. I see complaints about this all the time.

John from Google replied saying:

I guess they would know if they do a reasonable job – but I see many many complaints on this topic. I see it almost every day.

Forum discussion at Sphinn and Google Webmaster Help.