In brief: Google is already ane of the best search engines in the globe (data privacy aside), just with its latest feature, information technology'll be getting even improve. Starting today, the search platform volition begin giving you more information most websites that appear in your search results, peradventure letting y'all determine whether or not they're worth visiting in the first place.

To exist articulate, this is not the same every bit the small text blurbs that already announced nether search results. Those will all the same exist, just you lot'll now be able to tap the three-dot carte at the peak right of a given result to come across an expanded site clarification, instead of just a an SEO-optimized page description.

Google pulls these new descriptions directly from the Wikipedia entry for each site (provided it has ane, of form), then the visitor's employees won't be writing them manually, for improve or worse.

The principal purpose of this feature is to give y'all added context or peace of heed while browsing. For example, if you think you might have Covid-19 and desire to determine what symptoms you should look out for, this feature could help ensure you visit a legitimate website, and not an imposter (or simply a site prone to spreading misinformation).

If Wikipedia information is not available for a site, Google says it will instead show details like when it was first indexed. Again, this should aid build trust between websites and users -- if a site has been effectually for 10 years, there'due south at least a decent adventure it'll have more than reliable data than something make-new. It'southward non perfect, but information technology'south better than nothing.

Finally, this new context feature will e'er tell you whether your connection to a site volition be using the HTTPS protocol without you lot needing to click on the link. This is a minor comeback since almost browsers stop you from visiting unencrypted pages anyhow (and require explicit user blessing to continue), simply it could exist useful to some nonetheless.

This feature is nonetheless in beta, and then await to run across the occasional bug while searching the web. Nonetheless, it's a pretty basic feature, and then hopefully, there won't be whatever major bug.