"We've gotten lots of useful feedback from all kinds of webmasters and users, and we've tweaked, updated, and honed recognition and displaying of authorship information," Mueller wrote. "Unfortunately, we've also observed that this information isn't as useful to our users as we'd hoped, and can even distract from those results. With this in mind, we've made the difficult decision to stop showing authorship in search results."
Mueller said that Google testing had concluded that removal of author information did not appear to reduce traffic to websites nor increase clicks on ads. He added that the change will not affect Google
