I actually found the snippet experiments shortly after finishing the tool (unfortunately!). There’s definitely some interesting information and findings in them, like that period… very weird =)

Maybe he’s just talking about something that is already noted: that search engines often include various snippets from your site to more accurately match search terms?

Very nice! I considered adding a few of those features (e.g. date, bold words) to my version of the tool, but then Google released long snippets, inline sitelinks, blog snippets, review snippets, rich snippets, etc. etc. etc… all within like a 6 month period! I eventually concluded that I just don’t have the time or the interest to stay current with Google’s endless iterations. But I commend you on going the extra mile with your version of the tool. :)

If you’re interested in reading about some pretty obscure snippet results, check out my snippet experiment page. One thing I never figured out was why Google adds a period to my home page’s snippet. If you do a site: command for seomofo.com, you’ll see my snippet’s description ends in a period–which is NOT in my code. Weird, right?

Cheers,
SEOmofo

I think too many SEOs take for granted the power of finely crafted meta snippets and titles.