Google Featured Snippets Showing YouTube Timestamp Links

Mar 27, 2020 - 7:51 am 1 by
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We know Google has this neat feature to show "key moments" in the Google search results that show timestamps of sections of videos. But here is an example of a featured snippet showing this in text, with hyperlinks to those timestamps.

Raman shared this with me on Twitter and I can replicate this myself for a search on [fix bad system config info youtube]:

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This looks similar on the mobile version and you do not get the classic key moments interface with this on mobile.

This is what a key moment looks like:

Google Video Highlights

But in this case, in the case of a featured snippet, it does not look like this.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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