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Google is testing yet one more characteristic geared toward conserving customers on search outcomes pages — this time focusing on the favored recipe weblog trade.

The corporate is testing a brand new characteristic known as Fast View that seems for some cooking recipes. A seek for “chocolate chip cookie recipe,” for instance, reveals a “fast view” button on a recipe from the weblog Preppy Kitchen. Clicking it pulls up a full recipe with components, photographs, and step-by-step directions — all with out leaving Google Search. The brand new characteristic was beforehand reported on by trade weblog Search Engine Roundtable.

“We’re all the time experimenting with alternative ways to attach our customers with high-quality and useful data. We’ve partnered with a restricted variety of creators to start to discover new recipe experiences on Search which are each useful for customers and drive worth to the net ecosystem. We don’t have something to announce proper now,” Google spokesperson Brianna Duff instructed The Verge in an e-mail. Duff added that the characteristic is a restricted early experiment and that the corporate has agreements in place with taking part recipe bloggers. Preppy Kitchen didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

If you wish to see the affect of Google on the form of the net, look no additional than recipe blogs — websites that present a reasonably simple service however that have to be search engine optimized to excessive lengths to get Google’s consideration and, by extension, visitors. The wall of textual content full of private histories or diary-like ramblings usually are not shoved in entrance of readers as a result of bloggers need to do it; that textual content is there so Google’s algorithms perceive the content material on the web page and (hopefully) rank it greater in search.

Although the choice to view recipes in search remains to be in an early trial interval, it’s consistent with how search is altering: Google needs customers to remain on its providers and platforms each time doable. AI Overviews, which pull particulars from webpages and synthesize responses utilizing synthetic intelligence, are designed to make it pointless for searchers to scroll down by outcomes and go to precise webpages, even when AI solutions are weird or straight-up inaccurate. The brand new recipe characteristic may have the identical impact: what’s the purpose in clicking by to a web site, and even evaluating two completely different recipes, when Google has its personal built-in reply?