Citation search will become even more convenient on Google.
Despite its many competitors, Google is still today the best search engine on the market. The firm regularly improves its algorithm and adds new functions to the engine to make it more powerful.
One of the most widely used search engine functions is the citation query. It allows you to search very precisely for a term or a sequence of words in web pages.
Citation search is getting better
Google has dedicated a blog post to improving this feature.
With the update, embedded text below search results will directly display search terms to ensure you understand the context in which they were used.
Until then, the preview did not always change and could offer a representative phrase of the web page, unrelated to the user’s search.
However, the firm indicates that the solution will not be perfect. Searching for exact terms will sometimes dig into the metadata of the web page, in images for example, in which case it will be impossible to extract a citation. The kind of problem that made Google hesitate for a long time before the deployment of this update. The firm finally decided in favor of the change, indicating that the search with citation is already used by advanced users of the engine, able to understand its limits.
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