{"id":12996,"date":"2010-11-10T17:37:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T16:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-launches-instant-previews\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:08:25","slug":"google-launches-instant-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-launches-instant-previews\/","title":{"rendered":"Google launches Instant Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Google <\/strong>never stops working on improving its search engine. After launching <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-launches-instant-search-saves-you-time\/\">Google Instant<\/a> a couple of months ago, they&#8217;ve now taken a leap to image-based search results with the <strong>Google Instant Previews<\/strong> &#8211; a snapshot of each website listed in the results of your query.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/11\/google.jpg\" alt=\"Google Instant Previews\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Instant Previews has been implemented in a way that it doesn&#8217;t disturb the standard Google search procedure. Just use Google as you normally would, and if you want to see previews for your search results, click the <strong>magnifying glass icon<\/strong> next to any of them. Google will display a <strong>graphic preview<\/strong> for the selected result, highlighting relevant content &#8211; such as your search keywords &#8211; if they appear on the website.<\/p>\n<p>From that moment on, hovering your mouse over any other result will also display a snapshot of the website, so that you can scroll down the page and browse search results as if you were flipping through a magazine. Instant Previews are also keyboard navigable: just press the right key to activate them and the down key to check previews for all your results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google never stops working on improving its search engine. After launching Google Instant a couple of months ago, they&#8217;ve now taken a leap to image-based search results with the Google Instant Previews &#8211; a snapshot of each website listed in the results of your query. Instant Previews has been implemented in a way that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-launches-instant-previews\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google launches Instant Previews&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334608,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996\/revisions\/334608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12996"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12996"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12996"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}