What are rich snippits?

[noahwilson]

Hi friends,
I am new in web developing, help let me know about rich snippints, what is this? please share your feedback.
Thanks.

[preeti22]

this is Marking up your content.
Google supports rich snippets for these content types:

Reviews
People
Products
Businesses and organizations
Recipes
Events
Music

[steveschmidt85]

Rich snippets offer detailed info about various things in small description. People mostly uses schema micro-formats for rich snippets.

[markons]

Definition by Google - snippets are the few lines of text that appear under every search result are designed to give users a sense for what’s on the page and why it’s relevant to their query.

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Picture explains everything.

[colesraymond]

Rich snippets are intended to compress the substance of a page in a manner that makes it even simpler for clients to comprehend what the page is about.