Google Search Tests Link Icon Box With Anchor Feature

May 20, 2025 - 7:51 am 0 by
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Google Link Boxes

Google is testing a new link feature in the search results, it is in the form of a link box, in the search result snippet, that when you click on it, it anchors you down on the page to a specific portion of that text.

It works similarly to the featured snippets, people also ask, AI Overview links, but it is in the form of a new link in the normal search results snippet.

This was spotted by Brodie Clark who posted about it on X and SERP Alerts about this. I cannot replicate this but here are his screenshots.

This shows the new link box icon in the snippets:

Google Snippet Arrow Link Box

When you hover over the link, you can see the HTML anchor in the link:

Google Snippet Arrow Link Anchor

Here is another screenshot:

I guess, the more links, the better for publishers?

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