Month: October 2020

How Are Featured Snippet Answers Decided Upon? I recently wrote about Featured Snippet Answer Scores Ranking Signals. I described how Google was likely using query-dependent and query-independent ranking signals to create answer scores for queries looking like they wanted answers. One of the inventors of that patent from that post was Steven Baker. I looked … Read more

Featured Snippet Answers Based on Context Last month I wrote about answer passages when Google decides what featured snippet answers to show in response to queries that are asking questions. This was in the post Featured Snippet Answer Scores Ranking Signals. I wrote about an updated patent that clarifies that passages that might be in … Read more