Where does the answer summary come from?
The summary is a snippet extracted programmatically from what a >visitor sees on your web page. What's different with a featured snippet is >that it is enhanced to draw user attention on the results page. When we >recognize that a query asks a question, we programmatically detect >pages that answer the user's question, and display a top result as a >featured snippet in the search results.
Like all search results, featured snippets reflect the views or opinion of >the site from which we extract the snippet, not that of Google. We are >always working to improve our ability to detect the most useful snippet, >so the results you see may change over time. You can provide feedback >on any Featured Snippet by clicking the "Give Feedback" link at the >bottom of the box.
Opting out of featured snippets
You can opt out of featured snippets by preventing snippets on your >page using the < m e t a name="googlebot" content="nosnippet"> tag on >your page. This will remove all snippets on your page, including those in >regular search results.
How can I mark my page as a featured snippet?
You can't. Google programmatically determines that a page contains a >likely answer to the user's question, and displays the result as a featured >snippet.
Google programmatically determines that a page contains a >likely answer to the user's question, and displays the result as a featured >snippet.
They disclose that they use their programming to find pages and not which part of the page, this means every page on the internet is processed for "useful information"
This is what they call artificial intelligence but there is actually no such thing and never will be. AI is just more complicated functions and programs that are still controlled by its writer.
Who gets to determine what is useful, I think we all know how things deliberately left out, can change the message entirely. A half truth is still a whole lie. I agree that AI can also be manipulated in several ways; either through programming, but also by manipulating the information it gets to process. Greetings!