Google Tweaks Search Snippets, Fires Back at Bing

Courtesy Mashable!  Fri, 09/25/2009 - 14:10

header-260Google just rolled out a small tweak to their “search snippet” format that appears beneath the title of each returned result.

The few lines of text are intended to give you some insight to the content of the page and whether it’s the most relevant result to answer your query.

In the new version, the search snippet includes contextual links right into the precise section of the page they think is relevant to your search.

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