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by skykooler 3570 days ago
It shows snippets of the web pages under each result; however, generally not the particular snippets that contain the search term. I would think that would be useful.
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Yes, it would be better.

The snippets are currently the first 255 characters of the page's text. For snippets to be customized to the search term, I would have to store all the text of the page. And that would require a lot more disk space. Space that I can't afford at the moment.