What is featured snippet?

An enhanced answer appearing at the top of Google search results, sometimes above paid results, displaying approximately 50 words of text, a page title, URL, and featured image thumbnail, also called position zero.

From 10 Different Ways To Get Organic Page 1 Google Rankings Ep. 560

A search result that appears above standard organic results on Google, which informational content has a chance to occupy for target keywords.

From How To Effectively Perform Keyword Research For Ecommerce Sponsored by SE Ranking Ep. 550

A selected search result displayed at the top of Google results in a special box, equivalent to position zero, often used by voice assistants to answer queries.

From Optimizing for position zero: The future of voice search by Ashwin Ramesh #471

A search result format that mostly answers questions directly on the results page. How-to guides formatted with structured markup improve eligibility for featured snippets and voice search.

From Practice useful marketing for local business content success by Jamie Pitman #425

A Google search result that pulls an answer directly from a source page, increasingly showing an 'according to' citation at the top and merging knowledge graph data, which reduces clicks to the original site.

From An Interview With Loren Baker #403