Weeks after Google introduced Instant search and a real-time search feature, there are reports that the search engine giant is also working on an update that would show full page previews on the search results page.
According to a blog post from Patrick Altoft, director of search at U.K. SEO agency Branded3, Google on Wednesday started testing a feature that would display pop-up previews of the Web sites listed in search results.
When the searcher hovers the cursor over a magnifying glass icon to the right of a result link, a preview of the linked page will pop up. This keeps users from having to navigate away from the initial search results page. The search terms are highlighted in orange and expanded to give a preview of the details on the page, should the user visit it. Click anywhere on the preview and the browser navigates directly to that page.
So far, it appears to just be a test and is not showing up for all users. Google did not respond to a request for comment.
It comes several weeks after Google introduced Google Instant, the predictive feature that displays results as a user types. Recently Google got some flack from critics because of certain words that were blacklisted from Google Instant. Google, however, said certain terms are omitted from results based on an algorithm that determines if they could potentially yield offensive results.
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