Google has made a number of updates to its how-to control your snippets in search results to clarify that the snippets are primarily generated using the page content. Google removed the section about rich results and structured data on that page.

Google explained, that they have clarified in those documents “that the primary source of the snippet is the page content itself.” Adding “The previous wording incorrectly implied that structured data and the meta description HTML element are the primary sources for snippets.”

Google changed the first paragraph to read:

Previously it read:

Google also wrote this on the revised page:

Previously it said:

Those were the changes made to that document.

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