Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'snippets'

Part of the Google Searchology event announcements from yesterday, Google announced a new way to enhance the search results. This way is called rich snippets and it gives webmasters a way to communicate richer data to Google, so they can...

Posted on May 13, 2009 9:06 AM

The Google Blog announced Google has added additional search refinements and detailed snippets. Here is part of the announcement: More and better search refinements Starting today, we're deploying a new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to...

Posted on March 25, 2009 7:01 AM

There have been more recent reports of Google showing longer descriptions (aka snippets) in the search results. We have reports from ThatsSEO.com, Holistic Search and SEMVironment.com with examples and screen captures. I was able to reproduce it for a search...

Posted on January 15, 2009 8:51 AM

There are two scientific papers or patent that were written about by Bill Slawski and Gary Price, who else. Bill wrote about How does Google Pick Snippets for Your Pages to Show in Search Results? and Gary wrote about How...

Posted on December 20, 2007 7:30 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has two claims from respected members, giving us a little more insight into Google's search engine. The first thing we learn is that Google has several cache databases. When doing site search "site:exmple.com" when I see the...

Posted on July 9, 2007 7:37 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks why is Google showing him a really long description for some of the pages of his site. I reported back a while ago at Search Engine Watch a post by Philipp where he spotted this over...

Posted on November 9, 2006 7:11 AM