Google search with short videos and visual stories (with accordion)

One month ago, we reported that the Google trend is moving away from online stories / visual stories and moving towards shows several short videos. Well, now we see that Google displays short videos very prominently in search results, and then it also displays visual stories lower in the accordion to expand and show more.

Glenn Gabe shared this case on Twitter says he finds it “very interesting to see BOTH features of SERP short videos and visual stories in SERP for some entities. Google is testing the removal of visual stories and replacing them with short videos. This example shows accordion-based visual stories.”

Here is his tweet, followed by a video I made so you can see the placement and how it works:

Interesting pic.twitter.com/HAc2Vkn406

– Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) June 7, 2022

I think it makes sense for Google to slowly eliminate online stories, but it’s not clear how quickly this will happen.

Forum discussion on Twitter.