What is the Google Snippet?

Nov 27, 2007 - 7:17 am 8 by

Ever wonder what exactly makes up the pieces of the search results you see at Google? Matt Cutts, the head of "search quality" at Google blogged about it over at the Google Webmaster Central Blog.

Here is the video where Matt breaks down the following components of the search result snippet: * Title Link * Description under link * Plus expansion box * URL * Bolding keywords * Cache, Similar Pages, Google Notes * Site Links * More Results

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