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Whether this exposes what some of the goal of Google+ was, or will be tied into some new form of Authorship, who knows...
Android Police found some (seemingly unintended since they're now removed) links to documentation for a new type of "Featured Snippet" to appear on Google. It's very similar to what exists for celebrities already, but is going to be opened up to everybody.
The catch? The data will be used in some fashion for advertising, obviously, which doesn't bother me, but I doubt that'll be the only application. And like lambs to the slaughter the people will willingly walk!
This isn't the same as Google Plus profiles or even the Google "About me" page. This is you providing details about your life, career, education, websites, social media profiles, etc. So this can be displayed in the SERPs if people search for you.
Here's an example of the "edit screen" to enter your data:
And here is the result:
Here's some of the documentation:
On a side note, in my opinion, one day anonymity online may be gone entirely. We'll have some "single sign on" company like ICANN that we have to log onto the internet through, and all of our accounts on various sites will be attached to that. We just can't have people saying things on the internet we don't agree with, you know?
Android Police found some (seemingly unintended since they're now removed) links to documentation for a new type of "Featured Snippet" to appear on Google. It's very similar to what exists for celebrities already, but is going to be opened up to everybody.
The catch? The data will be used in some fashion for advertising, obviously, which doesn't bother me, but I doubt that'll be the only application. And like lambs to the slaughter the people will willingly walk!
This isn't the same as Google Plus profiles or even the Google "About me" page. This is you providing details about your life, career, education, websites, social media profiles, etc. So this can be displayed in the SERPs if people search for you.
Here's an example of the "edit screen" to enter your data:
And here is the result:
On a side note, in my opinion, one day anonymity online may be gone entirely. We'll have some "single sign on" company like ICANN that we have to log onto the internet through, and all of our accounts on various sites will be attached to that. We just can't have people saying things on the internet we don't agree with, you know?
