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Google’s new In-Depth Articles search results

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When you're searching Google for more than a quick answer, it's not always obvious which links in the search results have more in-depth information.

Recently Google started returning in-depth articles for some broad topics. These are not like what you'd get from Wikipedia. They're gleaned from essays and editorials from major sources.

For example, here's a screenshot of a Google search for dsm 5:

google-dsm5

 

To get a list of in-depth articles for this search:

Add the following to the URL in the address window after getting your first page of search results:

&ida_m=1

The URL for the Google search results that I got was originally:
https://www.google.com/search?q=dsm+5

Adding the little snippet in red above makes the URL look like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=dsm+5&ida_m=1

...with the following in-depth results:

dsm5-indepth

The in-depth search hack doesn't work for all topics. Content publishers are still scrambling to meet Google's criteria to be included in in-depth search results.

Give it a try and post a comment on how it worked for you!