As a milestone in Google’s Journey, it has added a new option to the web search toolbelt, Page Previews. Therefore, you can perform a page preview action by just clicking “Show Option” and selecting “Page Previews”. Then Google will show you a longer snippet and a thumbnail for each search result.

Moreover, Google’s thumbnail includes a small part of the page, so that they aren’t always useful. Another issue is that all the thumbnails from a search results pages are merged and the resulting image doesn’t load instantly.

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