What is Google’s Rich Answer Box?

[ankitasharma123]

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What is Google’s Rich Answer Box?

[joelhuang]

A “rich answer” is any attempt by Google to answer the searcher’s query in search results in a way not requiring a click through to a website.

Rich answers come in many forms. They can be recipes, sports scores, stock graphs, calculators, sliders, text-based answers, numbered step-by-step directions, maps, and much more.

[risen29]

Its not really googles answer is drawn from a site with a very high standing with google regarding the topic

[24x7servermanag]

When you search for a term or ask a question, the Google search page displays a quick answer to your query besides the usual search results.

Basically, Google tries to provide “direct” answers to any query so that the user need not visit a particular website searching for the answer. Rich answers has below three types -

Answers Provided by Google
Featured Snippets
Basic Snippets

[alpa]

A lot of the times when you see these rich answer results in the SERPs, you see very high authority sites like Wikipedia.Note, when Google extracts a rich answer from a third party web site, they refer to this as a “featured snippet.”

[deepakrajput]

Google shows relevant resources when you search any query in search engine.