What is a Snippet?

In web search results, a brief excerpt or summary of a webpage’s content, displayed below the page title and URL. Snippets provide users with a quick preview of the page’s relevance to their search query. They can be regular text excerpts, rich snippets with additional data like ratings or prices, or featured snippets prominently displayed at the top of search results. Search engines typically generate snippets automatically, though website owners can influence them through optimization techniques.