What are rich snippets?

[supergolfer]

What are rich snippets?

[johnmart1]

Rich snippets are additional pieces of information that the search engine is able to identify on the page, used to enhance the searcher’s understanding of the value of that page. Ratings, pricing, and availability are commonly seen in e-commerce rich snippets.

[Ravina97]

Rich Snippets is the term used to describe structured information markup that website operators will add to their existing HTML, that in turn enable search engines to better understand what information is contained on each web page.

[MVMInfotech18]

Rich snippets are extra bits of text, data or visual content that appear in the abstracts or summaries of a Google search engine results page. These can take many forms, including bits of informational text, visual formats such as ratings or other icon indicators, small profile pictures, etc.