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Google adds "suggest" buttons to featured snippets

         

EditorialGuy

3:43 pm on Aug 31, 2018 (gmt 0)

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Have any of you seen this in the wild? It's an interesting and useful improvement on featured snippets:

In a "how to fish for trout" example, the featured snippet has the usual info plus buttons for "in a lake," "in a pond," "in a creek," and "from shore," with the buttons linking to the appropriate content on the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife site.

[searchenginejournal.com...]

keyplyr

10:29 pm on Aug 31, 2018 (gmt 0)

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I've been seeing something similar in Image Search.

So if I search images for "fish" it might give choices across the top for "in a lake," "in a pond," or "in a creek." The choices seem to come from common word couplings, e.g. what others have search for.

aristotle

4:14 pm on Sep 1, 2018 (gmt 0)

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I usually just skip over these answer boxes without looking at them. They're mostly just clutter, wasting valuable space at the top of the page.