Google Authorship is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of search
Let’s play Devil’s Advocate a minute.
Google has said it will “stop showing authorship in search results.”
[https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JohnMueller/posts/HZf3KDP1Dm8]. It has not said
that it will stop using what it has learned about authorship to impact rankings.
Over the past few