Google Featured Snippets Without Borders - A Bug Or Feature?

Aug 5, 2020 - 8:08 am 2 by
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I had a few reports yesterday of Google displaying featured snippets but without borders. It seems like a bug to me but who knows, maybe Google is testing borderless featured snippets and search results?

Here is a screen shot of a featured snippet without borders via @DanielHerndler:

Google Featured Snippet Without Borders

Here is how I see it with borders:

Google Featured Snippet With Borders

Here are more screen shots:

Has to be a bug, right?

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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