Google Tests Search Results Overview Snippets Overlay

Google is testing a new search feature within the search results to show you a search result snippet overlay with additional details about that search result. The interesting fact is that this overlay doesn’t have text from the search result itself, the text may be sourced from Wikipedia or other third-party sources.

Techno-Net first spotted this and Google Operating System covered it in more detail.

Here are some screen shots of the overlays:

You can even test this yourself by editing your cookies and go to google.com and change the value of the NID cookie to:

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