The Google Authorship pictures that we’ve grown accustomed to seeing in search results are about to go away. Google’s John Mueller detailed this change in an announcement on Google+: We’ve been doing lots of work to clean up the visual design of our search results… As a part of this, we’re simplifying the way authorship is shown in mobile and desktop search results, removing the profile photo and circle count.  Mueller also explains that removing authorship pictures from search results has not had a significant effect on click-through rates: “Our experiments indicate that click-through behavior on this new less-cluttered design […] The post Google Authorship Pictures In Search Results Are Going Away by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Posted by SimonPenson The way we consume content is changing at a faster pace than at any time in history. While the shift from print to digital was seismic from a structural perspective, things have not stopped moving ever since. The growth of mobile, and now tablet use, is altering the landscape once again and adding a layer of complexity that businesses have never had to deal with before

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google’s John Mueller announced on Google+ today that Google will cease showing author profile images and Google+ circle counts in desktop and mobile search results. This global change will roll out over the next few days.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

Google’s John Mueller announced they are making a major change in the search results around authorship. Specifically, Google is dropping the profile photo and circle count from the search listings where authorship is assigned to a web page

Among the numerous announcements at the Google I/O developer conference this morning, Google said it was expanding its app indexing program to all Android apps and developers. App indexing allows for deep linking of app content from mobile web search results. Previously, Google had only been…

A Shareaholic analysis of search engine data has found a steady decline in the number of visitors coming from search engines over six months.

Yesterday, Google announced they’ve updated their AdWords auction explanatory video after almost five years.

Even if you’ve decided to “go mobile,” you may be losing an average of 68 percent of smartphone traffic. New BrightEdge research looks at the various types of mobile solutions and how they affect important outcomes like rankings and traffic.