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Google have started their Authorship program because they are trying to make people accountable for the articles that they write.
It used to be that people were manipulating the search engines by uploading a lot of articles at one time in certain places such as link farms. Google started to do away with link farms by making it so that the links coming from link farms were no longer applicable in their search engine optimization the guidelines.