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Yesterday, the SEO space got into a bit of a panic when Google suddenly dropped authorship images from their search results page.
Twitter Twitter and Google+ went made (I am just sharing one thread from each but there were tons).
It was a bug, Google didn't tell me why, but the faces from the search results, my face, your face, where authorship rich snippets would show, disappeared. It was missing from around 3:45pm to 5:05pm EST yesterday. It came back, we survived without our faces but it was a wow - factor for many.
Instead of seeing:
You saw:
Yea, I know, the horror and confusion people must have had!
Comments:
Mark Traphagen
05/23/2014 12:53 pm
What was most amusing to me was how many people immediately jumped to "See! More evidence that Google is killing Google+!" People want to believe that so badly. I should sell kits for cleaning egg off of faces.
Michael Martinez
05/23/2014 03:20 pm
You'd think after all these years people would learn to NOT PANIC but I guess they just don't want to learn.
Jamo
05/23/2014 04:18 pm
Egads! 75 minutes? Did everyone notice a drop in their CTR due to the authorship not showing? 75 minutes is a long time to lose clicks. In other news, Chicken Little says the sky is not falling, he just checked. We really should tell Google to get with it and stop testing their SERPs.
Sean Murray
05/24/2014 03:17 am
I LOL'd at this line "we survived without our faces "
Ben Guest
05/24/2014 02:15 pm
I started a crow diet small business which has recently exploded. The orders just keep coming in so we keep serving them up. ;-)