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Featured snippets are like super quick answers right at the top of Google! They pop up to give you the info you need super fast. Google grabs a juicy bit from a webpage and shows it off. This way, you get your answer without even clicking much!

What is the purpose of a featured snippet?

A featured snippet provides a direct, concise answer to a user’s search query, appearing at the top of Google’s search results. Its goal is to quickly satisfy the user’s information need, often by extracting a relevant passage from a webpage and presenting it prominently.

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Thabo Sebata

Thabo Sebata is a Cape Town-based journalist who covers the intersection of politics and daily life in South Africa's legislative capital, bringing grassroots perspectives to parliamentary reporting from his upbringing in Gugulethu. When not tracking policy shifts or community responses, he finds inspiration hiking Table Mountain's trails and documenting the city's evolving food scene in Khayelitsha and Bo-Kaap. His work has appeared in leading South African publications, where his distinctive voice captures the complexities of a nation rebuilding itself.

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