Google helps you see websites in the search results before you go to them

Google is launching a new preview service called Instant Previews to allow users to see the websites in the search results before they go to the shown addresses. The new feature helps people bypass websites that are either irrelevant or simply too visually cluttered for their tastes. It works for Google Web searches, as well as searches for news, video and local businesses.

By clicking on an icon of a magnifying glass users will be able to see a picture of the website in the white space to the right of the search results within a tenth of a second. Although the preview photo will vary in size, just as Google's image results do, Google designed the previews so that they'll never eclipse the search results and clutter the page.

Google said it is introducing visual previews because word-based search results can only tell someone so much about what a website holds in store. People who use Google can already read short snippets from a site before they click on it, as well as, say, the date a news story or article was published.

Thereby, Google claims that people who use Instant Previews are 5 percent more likely to feel satisfied with the website they chose.

Google will roll out Instant Previews in 40 languages over the coming days.