Featured Snippet

A featured snippet is a prominent Google Search result that presents an extracted answer or excerpt from a webpage. Depending on the search, it may look like a paragraph, list, or other concise format. A home repair article answering a clear question might be considered, but website owners cannot mark a page to force it into that position. Google's systems decide when to display featured snippets and which sources to show. Clear headings and accurate explanations help readers regardless of whether a snippet appears. This differs from a meta description, which is page metadata that Google may or may not use when generating an ordinary search-result snippet.