Google Instant Previews Via Mouse Over

By Barry Schwartz

Published: September 22, 2011 at 2:51 pm

Google has announced an improvement to their instant previews feature they originally launched in November of last year.

The improvement lets you simply hover your mouse over a search result and the preview will automatically show up on the right hand preview column.

Google said:

Now these previews are no longer even a click away: if you move your mouse over a search result, arrows will appear. Hover over them to see a visual preview of that result.

Here is a picture:

Google Hover Previews

I personally do not see this feature yet, but many have reported seeing this being tested for months now and many are now seeing it being rolled out.

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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