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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by gniv on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:17PM (#20690815)
> If you opt-out of snippets, it simply means somebody else claims the top spot

Citation? I thought snippets are just for display, not ranking.

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by ribeyes on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @09:06PM (#20691834)
Snippets link to the source URL, so getting into the snippet gets your link to top of the page.
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