For a while now google allows website owners to connect a google+ profile to your search results which will most importantly lead to a "profile" picture being next to the search result.
However, will these results have a higher CTR than normal results? And if there is a difference, then why do users prefer one method over another?
Yes, it does. We will always remember a person or post better with his image than a name, a reason why we have moved from text to icons, videos , command prompt to GUI.
So this
is always better than this
But however google as always gives priority to clicks over posts with G+ post association, so even after G+ association this post is way below in list
The real answer is "It depends."
For products website, it is suggested to remove the authorship of the web page.
When you intend to search product, you perceived that the face-tagged post probably is not the product page. So you tend to skip over those links and go for another.
For reviews, tutorials or other subjective topics, it is appropriate to associate the post with the author.
It works effectively to recall one's memory only when
There's more than a few people that I have never met, and some I don't even follow, whose names I know only because their name and picture pops up regularly next to search results on topics that I search.
That said, I suspect this is a topic better suited to the webmaster's site and hopefully somebody will migrate it so you can get better responses.
