Greetings all, This weekend I stumbled across this interesting bit of research (done by a Search Engine Optimization consultant) analyzing the increase in "rich answers" provided by Google. Rich answers are where Google tries to provide a full or partial answer to a question without requiring a click to another website.
The end of the article is concerned with SEO, and the effect different kinds of rich answers have on website traffic (e.g., partial answers lead people to your site, full answers don't), but the bulk of the article is a breakdown of the kinds of rich answers Google provides. The most surprising to me is that they license song lyrics in order to provide them (without attribution). Not surprisingly, Wikipedia comes up several times in screenshots. Whether you care about SEO or not, it's a nice survey of the kind of rich answers Google provides: https://www.stonetemple.com/the-growth-of-rich-answers-in-googles-search-results/ —Trey Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
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