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# Google+ Circle counts arrive in search results
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2011/09/google_circle_counts_arrive_in_search_re/
- Published: 2011-09-29T18:15:35.000Z
- Updated: 2019-04-02T11:14:17.000Z
- Description: Google is starting to show authors' Circle count in search, as a mark of authority.
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: authority, authorship, Google, search, search engines, google+

Wow. If we had any doubt that Google+ was going to become a significant part of what Google does, I think we can abandon it now. Checking recent referrals to this blog, I stumbled across this search result:

![Google+ Circles in search](https://storage.ghost.io/c/36/d8/36d823b7-59a1-4c8b-91bd-a54c64552596/content/images/2019/04/circlesinsearch.png)

I’ve talked about [authorship markup](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2011/08/birth%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fauthorship.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) before, but now they’ve added circle counts. That’s *interesting*.

Authorship is a way of socialising search results – it gives the author of any particular page a high level of emphasis. I’ve seen a small, but noticeable, uptick in search click-throughts since I started using it. That’s to be expected – people respond to images of people.

However the circle count gives some indication of *authority* – how followed this person is, how worth listening to they are. Looks like Google+ is going to end up as an integral part of Google search…