30 September 2008
Google testing different size search result descriptions
Image thanks to TechCrunch
Yesterday a Webmaster World forum thread reported that some users were being given the ability by Google to change the length of their search result descriptions. Users reported being able to select ‘S’, ‘M’ or ‘L’ to change the length of the snippet.
It appears that longer snippets were being formed from the page’s meta description as well as the content itself. One user said,
I’ve been using it all day today on the L detail setting, and I really like it. It shows a meta description and on-page content, so it’s much easier to distinguish between good pages with real info as opposed to keyword list spam or stub pages with just a deceptively nice meta description.
Is anyone lucky enough to be part of this test?
[Thanks Nik!]
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