Google Direct Answers Box - available in other languages aside from English?
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Hi guys,
Last year I wrote a post for the YouMoz blog (https://moz.com/ugc/google-s-direct-answers-how-to-keep-visitors-coming-to-your-site) about Google's Direct Answers box.
Needless to say, I focused purely on English language queries but I'm curious to know if anyone has seen the box appear for queries in other languages.
If you've seen this happening and could provide some examples, then please let me know!
Thanks in advance!
Daniel
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Hi Kady,
I did tweet about this and Aleyda and Gianluca were both kind enough to reply. It does seem that at present, it's not as widespread in other languages as in English, but it's also interesting to note that it seems to be less common for Italian queries vs Spanish.
The example from Gianluca was "que es una meta description" which on Google.es displays a Direct Answer. In Italian I tried "cos'è una meta description" but no Direct Answer was given, just regular search results.
Maybe it's because in Italian for example, there's no equivalent article which explains what a meta description is which meets all of Google's requirements for displaying a Direct Answer... but that does seem unlikely!
Daniel
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Hi Daniel, curious if you were able to gather any more insight? I've done quite a bit of searching, with no success. Thanks!
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Thanks Dr. Pete! I guess there's still some more to find out about how much it's been rolled out in other languages. Thinking of reaching out to Aleyda and Gianluca Fiorelli to see if they have any additional insight.
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Ok, here's one in Brazil/Portuguese, thanks to Pedro Dias:
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=como+jogar+mega+sena&hl=pt-BR
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So, Gary Illyes is telling me that Featured Snippets are available in 10 other locales beside the US, but I'm not sure which languages, and I can't actually find any examples. Does that help?
I can find some non-English terms that show them, such as "ayurveda" and "hajj", but they're English answers on Google.com. They seem to disappear when I switch to the origin languages.
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