Comments on: Extra long descriptions showing up in Google search results: test in progress? http://antezeta.com/news/long-descriptions Reflections on search engine optimization, web analytics and web marketing Fri, 11 May 2012 17:49:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: Marjoryhttp://antezeta.com/news/long-descriptions#comment-2160 Marjory Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:49:52 +0000 http://antezeta.com/news/?p=162#comment-2160 These longer snippets seem like they are definitely a new feature of Google's results. We're seeing them pretty consistently for longer search queries all over the U.S. and it looks like it's been going on for a while with some results reported as far back as November of last year. http://www.morevisibility.com/seoblog/long-description-snippets-in-google-search-results.html. As you say, since they only seem to appear for longer search queries, it's not that noticeable. These longer snippets seem like they are definitely a new feature of Google’s results. We’re seeing them pretty consistently for longer search queries all over the U.S. and it looks like it’s been going on for a while with some results reported as far back as November of last year.
http://www.morevisibility.com/seoblog/long-description-snippets-in-google-search-results.html. As you say, since they only seem to appear for longer search queries, it’s not that noticeable.

]]> By: Panos Ladashttp://antezeta.com/news/long-descriptions#comment-2155 Panos Ladas Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:26:29 +0000 http://antezeta.com/news/?p=162#comment-2155 I can confirm that descriptions are getting huge!! Have a look for the following silly example: "can i have 2 cars in one garage?".The query is not that long (main keywords are "2, cars, 1, garage") but the total number of words is 8 and this give very long snippets. I can confirm that descriptions are getting huge!! Have a look for the following silly example:
“can i have 2 cars in one garage?”.

The query is not that long (main keywords are “2, cars, 1, garage”) but the total number of words is 8 and this give very long snippets.

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