Google Testing “In-Depth Articles” Search Results, A New Rich Snippet?

Dr. Peter Meyers, the Marketing Scientist at Moz (formerly SEOmoz), tipped us off to a new Google search interface test.It appears Google is testing showing “in-depth articles” in the search results for local queries.

In the screenshot below, Pete triggered these results by searching for [mexican restaurants]. The local results and maps came up, and also restaurant reviews from Reason, New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

We’ve reached out to Google for a comment on this finding but have not yet heard back.

Google is constantly testing algorithms, search results, user interfaces and more. So, this test should not surprise anyone; but, for some reason, I think we will be seeing more of this in the near future.