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Rich results templates out-of-the-box
Monday, July 18, 2011
We’ve been hard at work making improvements to the
Google Custom Search Element
that will enhance the look and feel of search results when users type into your custom search query box. You’ll see some of the fruits of these labors starting today. We’ve just launched a set of templates that take advantage of
rich snippets
markup to provide customized results layouts for specific structured data. Your markup can enhance the
display
of structured information in addition to enabling the powerful metadata features, such as
Sort by Attribute
and
Restrict to Range
that we released
last year
.
For example, there’s a
Review
template that will show ratings and expand on-demand to display reviews within a result as shown in the screenshot below:
This specific treatment is used when you use
hreview
and
hreview-aggregate
Microformat markup on your pages. Template rendering changes are automatic if you use the Element.
Templates that we now support include:
People
,
Product
,
Recipe
,
Organization
,
Review
and
Review Aggregate
.
Try these out
at our demo search site. Here’s an example of a
Recipe
result, using a custom
theme
.
For more information on markup that you can use for Google.com and Custom Search, please refer to our
documentation
. Don’t forget that we also support
image thumbnails and actions
. Further, if you are marking up your pages, you can verify that we recognize the right attributes by using our
Rich Snippets Preview Tool
.
We are constantly adding support for additional markup
formats
, so stay tuned. We’re continuing to add innovative features to the Element to help you turbo-charge your Custom Search results presentation. As always, we look forward to your
feedback
.
Posted by: Edison Nica, Software Engineer
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