At the beginning of the yr, Google added a function to its search engine known as About This Result. By tapping on the three dots icon positioned subsequent to most outcomes, the instrument means that you can discover out extra a few web site earlier than you navigate to it. With the preliminary rollout of About This Result, Google displayed data from Wikipedia, and, if that wasn’t out there, it pulled what it might from considered one of its providers. The panels additionally included particulars in regards to the web site like when it was first listed by the corporate, and when you might count on a safe connection.

Today, Google is making these panels extra sturdy by including to the range of data they show. To begin, along with an outline from Wikipedia, you’ll see what every web site has to say about itself in its personal phrases. You will even see what others have needed to say about them — be that by means of opinions or a easy information article. In the “about the topic” part, Google will embody different protection or outcomes from completely different sources.

As earlier than, the concept behind the About This Result function is to save lots of you an additional search while you need to discover out extra a few web site you’re about to go to. Google additionally sees it as a manner to assist folks make extra knowledgeable choices about how they use the web and supply peace of thoughts when you’re in search of vital data associated to vital subjects. 

Aside from these “Information Literacy features,” the corporate additionally introduced new options coming to its outcomes pages throughout its Search On occasion in the present day. They’re known as Things to Know, Refine This Search, Broaden This Search and Related Topics to its outcomes to make it simpler to be taught extra about completely different subjects. Things To Know, for instance, will pull up the fundamentals you will want to know a brand new topic, whereas refining and broadening your search may help you discover associated points.

Google Search customers within the US will see in the present day’s enlargement roll out over the approaching weeks and months.