Featured snippets
Google’s position-zero extract. Still a training gym for answer-ready writing, and still a feed into some Overviews.
The format that wins snippets often wins chat extraction: definition, steps, table.
Snippet loss to an Overview is common. Keep the extractable structure anyway.
Examples
- You own the snippet. Overview cites a different domain. Two games.
Related terms
AEO is structuring content so an answer engine can lift a clean response — featured snippets, voice, and now chat surfaces that skip the blue-link list.
Pages that lead with a direct answer, then proof. Built for snippets, Overviews, and chat extraction.
AI Overviews are Google’s generated summaries on the results page. They sit above the links and eat clicks.
FAQ
Worth chasing? +
If the query still shows a snippet in your market, yes. Don’t only chase them.
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