New feature on SERPs
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I noticed something new on Google's SERPs today. Has this been up for a while? Has anyone else seen this.
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Yes, I have seen it only 2-3 times ever since it launched. I guess the way we all search or the kind of searches we have, don't have short answers
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It's actually almost two years old, though I don't run across it in the SERPs too often. Here's the post Google made when they released that feature: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/understanding-web-to-find-short-answers.html
For a funny example see http://imgur.com/gallery/uXZ7o
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