Google featured snippets now often followed by the ‘people also ask’ box

The "People also ask" gets more frequent and prominent placement in Google.

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Google has made a change to the featured snippets where often, right after the featured snippets are displayed in the search results, the “people also ask” box follows.

This started happening yesterday, and it can be found for many of the queries that trigger a featured snippet. It does not show for all, but it does show for many.

Here are two screen shots of how it looks with the people also ask directly after the featured snippets:

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Here is an example of a featured snippet that currently doesn’t have the “people also ask” feature after it:

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It is unclear if this change is a new search feature or a bug with the search results.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is 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. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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