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I wonder why he says it's a difficult decision? What was the upside to users or authors? If the data shows this is an improved experience for users it should be
by codezero 12y ago
I wonder why he says it's a difficult decision? What was the upside to users or authors? If the data shows this is an improved experience for users it should be a given and not difficult or something to apologize for.
- esolyt 12y agoBecause they spent time working on it.
- michaelhoffman 12y agoRight, and they also convinced web publishers to spend time working on it.
- unreal37 12y agoAgreed. Authorship was supposed to be a revolution in search marketing. Author Rank was the new Page Rank. It was the Next Big Thing (TM). And now it's dead.
- codezero 12y agoSo this is a clear issue of misaligned priorities between content seekers and content providers I guess. I'm very very glad they went with the optimum for content seekers in this case.
- michaelhoffman 12y agoIt's less that the priorities are misaligned, and more that Google wasted the time of the content providers by recommending that they do something that is no longer going to be used.
- codezero 12y agoGoogle is constantly changing the way results show up and ranking and content creators are always shuffling to get ahead, I don't see how this is any different from something like say, Panda, or any other periodic change to how Google presents information. I get your point though.
- PhasmaFelis 12y agoBecause not everyone has the same use cases. A positive change for most users can be a negative for a few, and you don't ever want to be perceived as saying "We're super excited to be screwing you, 'cause we don't care about your needs!"
- codezero 12y agoYeah, I'm most curious about who is negatively affected by this.
- graeme 12y agoPower users probably. They're disproportionately likely either to use it themselves, or to recognize authors at a glance.
- donatj 12y agoI am. My sites traffic went way up after adding authorship to my posts.
- PhasmaFelis 12y agoI dunno! I don't use it either way. There's a lot of people in the post comments with opinions, though.