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by elsewhen 3347 days ago
i get the sense that google wants the featured snippets feature but are not devoting enough resources to it. the following featured snippet has been appearing for over 8 months, and i have sent feedback multiple times:

https://www.google.com/search?q=apartments+for+rent+minneapo...

the featured snippet is completely incomprehensible (and embarrassing)... they just don't seem to care enough.

2 comments

They just scraped the first three days of the first three weeks of a calendar...
exactly what a user wants who is looking for a list of available apartments </s>
If I were them I would vigorously avoid manually fixing individual cases that weren't dangerous? That's an extremely terrible way to build an NLP system.