Featured snippet
A featured snippet is a highlighted excerpt from one web page that Google shows near the top of results to answer a question directly, with a link to the page.
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What Featured snippet means
Featured snippets come as paragraphs, lists or tables. Google picks the excerpt automatically from a page that ranks well for the query. Pages that answer a question in the first lines under a matching heading are easier to excerpt, which is also what makes them easy for AI answers to quote.