Article 625M1 One of the best Google search hacks is getting even better

One of the best Google search hacks is getting even better

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Jay Peters
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Did you know you can search for an exact word or phrase on Google by putting quotation marks around it? It's a great way to get specific about something you're looking for. And on Thursday, Google announced what I think will be a nice improvement: the small snippets underneath a search result link will now be created based on where the quoted term appears on the page.

Google's blog post about the change has a good image that illustrates how this will work in practice, which I've included below. Google googled google search," and the two snippets shown in the example both include the bolded phrase Google Search."

Image: Google The Google search results for google search."

Previously, Google would show you...

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