Recently, Bing began experimenting with images in search results, similar to authorshipmarkup, but also for news results. Or, Google could possibly extend images next to search results, similar to what is currently done for authors using...
The underlyings of authorshipmarkup on Google link directly to Google+, where your identity has been verified. Using Google's Structured Data Testing Tool to look at the page's markup, you can clearly see the page does not contain authorshipmarkup.
On first glance Linked Pages sounds like Bing's answers to Google's content authorshipmarkup which harnesses Google+ as your identity verification service. Whereas Google+ authorshipmarkup intends to discover content written (or simply posted) by...
The recent hype on updates to Googleauthorshipmarkup reference rel=author and rel=me attributes which are HTML5 microformats. In June 2011, Google, Yahoo, and Bing came together in support of microdata as the HTML5 standardized format for...