Google begins experimenting with featured snippets
in 2014, Google began answering complicated questions on the high of its search outcomes with detailed responses (or solutions) taken from web sites.
Does that sound like featured snippets? It ought to. Because it was.
We know from Google that featured snippets have been launched in January 2014. We don’t know the official date Google started testing it, however this was the day Search Engine Land first reported on the brand new search characteristic.
We didn’t but know these solutions have been referred to as “featured snippets,” however clearly that’s what we have been seeing. All Google would say on the time was: “we’re all the time experimenting with various kinds of solutions, however we don’t have extra particulars to share at this level.”
Read our protection of what was then an experimental characteristic: Google Search OneBox Answers Are Getting More Detailed
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Danny Goodwin is Managing Editor of Search Engine Land & SMX. In addition to writing day by day about search engine marketing, PPC, and extra for Search Engine Land, Goodwin additionally manages Search Engine Land’s roster of subject-matter specialists. He additionally helps program our convention sequence, SMX – Search Marketing Expo.
Prior to becoming a member of Search Engine Land, Goodwin was Executive Editor at Search Engine Journal, the place he led editorial initiatives for the model. He additionally was an editor at Search Engine Watch. He has spoken at many main search conferences and digital occasions, and has been sourced for his experience by a variety of publications and podcasts.