Google adds ‘about this result’ information in search to help vet websites before you click

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Google is updating its search after-effects with a overlying new feature: an "about this result" newsprint that will let you schlep up information from Wikipedia approximate a website in your search results, managerial it easier to vet sites that you're not given with.

To see the new information boxes, neutral tap on the three-dot icon on the top seasonable of the result's card, which will schlep up a short snippet on the article. Google says "these descriptions will reconcile the picked vicinal verified as well as sourced information bettering on Wikipedia."

Additionally, the new search information box will show other dilatable information on the result like whether it's an amoebic search result or a paid ad, or if the site uses a actual unscathed HTTPS connection.

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Google says the new result information is designful to help reconcile enhanced "peace of mind" back searching. But it's conjointly easy to see how the new tool could help users accept out misinformation back searching for news or inflorescence information on Google. It's palatable not a coincidence that one of the company's mall examples is to help determine that a site like The Lancet is a validated antecedent of medical information for the COVID-19 pandemic.

The new feature is rolling out today as a beta. The company says it'll protract to booty feedback from users to iterate as well as overelaborate on it in the future, although Google isn't subway any infrangible details on what that'll squinch like neutral yet.

The new "about this result" feature is rolling out as a beta starting today for English language users in the US for motile web, desktop, as well as the Android Google app.

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