Glenn Gabe submitted a question to Google’s John Mueller asking him how will Google roll out the passage indexing – what will it look like when it rolls out. In short, John said he doesn’t really know but based on his experience, Google will experiment a lot with different ways of showing this – so expect experiments.

Glenn’s question:

John responded that he does not know, he said:

This is the screen shot Google used in its official blog post about how this might look:

But you and I know that what we will see in a year from now might not be this at all. In fact, the search results might not look any different at all. It might just be around how Google ranks the content, not how Google presents the search snippet. But time will tell.

Also, note featured snippets are different from passage indexing, which we covered. The bigger question is will their be a big visual difference?

Here is the video embedded at the start time:

Here is how Glenn summed up the response to his question:

Forum discussion at Twitter.