Featured snippets offering “bubble refinements,” also known as carousel snippets, launched in 2018, but continue to be displayed for approximately 8.62% of queries which produce a featured ...

Featured snippets are short chunks of text taken directly from a website and highlighted on SERPs.They are often short definitions or answers to questions and can be formatted as a short paragraph ...

Google search is not what it used to be. We all want to be No. 1 on the search results page, but getting there isn’t enough. It might be worth it to instead go for the top featured snippet position.

Technically, those Featured Snippets were never considered the top result on desktop anyway. According to Google Search Console reporting, they can be calculated as position 11 on desktop.