Google stops showing authorship in search results, will still include Google+ posts from friends and pages
Google today stopped showing authorship in search results, meaning articles will no longer include a link to the Google+ profile of their author. The company says that it found the information isn’t as useful to its users as it hoped, and in some cases even distracts from the overall search results. The official Authorship in web-search support page merely states “Authorship markup is no longer supported in web search.” Those interested in adding markup to their websites are pointed to rich snippets and structured data. In June, Google removed authors’ Google+ profile pictures from search results. At the time, Google’s…
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