Google Rich Cards expand to local restaurants and online courses

Google has announced they have added two new flavors of rich cards for their search results: local restaurant and online courses.

You can see these richer search results by searching for [best New Orleans restaurants] and [leadership courses], for example. These rich cards are contain a new user interface, such as “carousels that are easy to browse by scrolling left and right, or a vertical three-pack that displays more individual courses,” Google added.

Here are screen shots of these two types of new rich cards:

And if you go with AMP HTML for the these two new verticals, Google said it will bring a faster user experience. Google does recommend AMP here but says it is currently not required. Here is a screen shot of how that experience is with AMP:

Google updated their technical documentation around implementing these rich cards, which some spotted the other week.

You can access these technical documents over here.

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