i believe there is no google-defined attribute as author. rather, there are name and email which are sub-attributes of author and are all atom namespaces.
i believe the reason ebay is being seen in such results is simply by happenstance -- ebay submits their items with a custom-attribute author. none of those examples are accessing google's g:author -- which doesn't exist -- nor atom:name which contains the data.
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