Google Continues Expandable Tab Search Result Snippets Test

Mar 30, 2022 - 7:11 am 5 by
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Back in August 2021, Google began testing this expandable tab search result snippet. Then the test seemed to have expanded in November 2021. Last week, I had countless folks ask me about this again, but I am not yet able to see it myself - but clearly Google is re-testing this search feature.

Here is what a normal snippet looks like (click to enlarge):

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Here is what the expandable tab version looks like - in dark mode (click to enlarge):

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Here are more examples from some (not all) of the people who shared this with me last week on Twitter but trust me, I had dozens of people email or share examples with me:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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