Google Testing Site Preview

I just noticed that Google is testing a new feature where you get a preview of a website by hovering over their result in the listings.  It’s very interesting to see this especially since it’s covering up the PPC ads on the right.  I suspect that they will change the way this displays because their main money maker is PPC ads.

Google's Website Preview - Right from the results!
Google's Website Preview - Right from the results! (click for larger view)

This is changing by the minute.  After a couple of minutes of first seeing this in my browser, I started to see snippets of text included with the previews:

Google is pulling summary text to display in the preview (click for larger view)
Google is pulling summary text to display in the preview (click for larger view)

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  1. It’s the following day and I’m consistently seeing this in multiple browsers and tabs. It went from just happening occasionally to showing up with every search. Cool. A little annoying though while switching windows clicking back into my browser pops up the preview.

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