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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by DougWebb on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:18PM (#14159297)
Have you tried searching for a phone number? What you described is pretty much what the search results look like.
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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by Klathmon on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:04PM (#14159764)
That's why I put the quotes around "shouldn't".

They can't make sure that none of them get in, but their guidelines are just warning that they may "wise up" at some point and if you break those guidelines you may find your site un-findable in google because of it.

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