Google Featured Snippets Tests Related Query Refinements

Sep 6, 2017 - 8:03 am 0 by

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The folks at RankRanger spotted and posted on Twitter Google testing a new form of query expansion for related queries under the featured snippets. We saw this before about a year ago but it hasn't come up much since.

In short, Google is listing other queries, that help the searcher expand and refine their search to give you a more precise and detailed featured snippet answer.

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No surprise here of course...

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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