There is a lot of discussion going on on Twitter and Danny answers numerous questions and doubts concerning this solution. These are the most relevant findings:If a web page listing is elevated into the featured snippet position, we no longer repeat the listing in the search results. This declutters the results & helps users locate relevant information more easily. Featured snippets count as one of the ten web page listings we show.
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) January 22, 2020
- The solution has been implemented in order to get rid of duplicate search results displayed on the Page 1.
- It concerns only the Page 1 of the search results.
- If the text in the featured snippet position has a different URL than the image accompanying it, then the elimination of duplicate content applies only to the page with the text. Graphics aren't displayed in the search results for websites anyway.
- The elimination of duplicate content concerns only specific URLs in featured snippets. It’s not applicable to Top Stories or Interesting Finds.
- If a given URL is no longer in the featured snippet position, then it’ll probably be displayed on the Page 1 of regular search results (as it already had to be ranked high in order to appear in FS).
- The change doesn’t influence Search Console reporting.