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Google Authorship Retired Based on Lukewarm Results

by Judy Thomas

On Aug. 28, John Mueller, webmaster trends analyst at Google, announced through a post on his Google+ profile that the Google Authorship tool was retired, effective immediately. Originally designed to enable online authors to display their Google+ profile photos and circle counts alongside their bylines in search engine result pages, Google testing showed that the feature was poorly received by authors and search engine users alike.
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