Google Instant Previews - How has this effected you?

[Jcase]

As you may or may not know by now, Google has just released a new service which allows users to preview their search results by way of clicking on a magnifying glass (situated adjacent to the search result) which in turn opens up a small preview pane so that visitors can get a sneak peak of what they are visiting.

My question really would be how has this effected your click results and conversions?

Google has provided some good steps on how to best take advantage of this:

Keep your pages clearly laid out and structured, with a minimum of distractions or extraneous content. This is always good advice, since it improves the experience for visitors, and the simplicity and clarity of your site will be apparent via Instant Previews.

Try to avoid interstitial pages, ad pop-ups, or other elements that interfere with your content. In some cases, these distracting elements may be picked up in the preview of your page, making the screenshots less attractive.

Many pages have their previews generated as part of our regular crawl process. Occasionally, we will generate screenshots on the fly when a user needs it, and in these situations we will retrieve information from web pages using a new "Google Web Preview" user-agent.

Instant Previews does not change our search algorithm or ranking in any way. It's the same results, in the same order. There is also no change to how clicks are tracked. If a user clicks on the title of a result and visits your site, it will count as a normal click, regardless of whether the result was previewed. Previewing a result, however, doesn't count as a click by itself.

Currently, adding the nosnippet meta tag to your pages will cause them to not show a text snippet in our results. Since Instant Previews serves a similar purpose to snippets, pages with the nosnippet tag will also not show previews. However, we encourage you to think carefully about opting out of Instant Previews. Just like regular snippets, previews tend to be helpful to users—in our studies, results which were previewed were more than four times as likely to be clicked on. URLs that have been disallowed in the robots.txt file will also not show Instant Previews.

Currently, some videos or Flash content in previews appear as a "puzzle piece" icon or a black square. We're working on rendering these rich content types accurately.

Let me know your thoughts...
Jcase

[igamingrevenue]

Its an interesting move by Google. If you notice, the instant preview image pretty much completely covers the sponsored listings on the right hand side....

[grem]

it is cool and helps decide to visit a website or not

[Perc]

For some reason it has an issue with my site, the thumbnail is ugly. BitPixel also has this issue with my site, but I have seen others that are fine. Not sure what the issue is.

[Bonus Paradise]

Voted No , since I think it is to early to tell if I benefit.
But I find they made that really cool!

[Vladi]

too early to tell

[lots0]

Doesn't display FLASH...

Big draw back IMO.

[NoDepositCasino]

I think its an excellent move on Googles part, and benefits the user. For sites it makes it tricky since now it often may not be enough to just match in the text what a user is looking for - now we also need to match expectations visually - which is not as easy since visuals and taste in design are highly subjective. But overal a positive trend IMHO.

[NoDepositCasino]

Doesn't display FLASH...

Big draw back IMO.

Flash will die of natural causes, old age or both