Glossary
Featured snippet
Definition
The answer box at the top of Google search results, lifted directly from the visible content of a page rather than from schema. Pages win it by answering a question plainly, early, and in the shape Google wants to display.
The snippet is a preview of the AI era that arrived years ahead of it: one answer, extracted, above every ranked result. The writing that wins snippets, the question stated and the answer given whole in the first sentences, is the same writing that gets quoted by assistants.
That is why our content is answer-first as a rule. The answers section of this site is the pattern, applied to ourselves.