Google Webmaster Tools - Instant Previews
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See below for screenshot and explanation of Instant Previews which is within the Labs category.
Here are the Google webmaster tools categories as they look when you are logged in (left).
Below is the same structure with clickable links which go to a Hard Web webpage with a screenshot of what is on that webmaster tools category page (in my own webmaster tools account).
- Site Configuration
- Your site on the web
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Diagnostics
- Labs
Webmaster tools - Labs - Instant Previews
Instant previews are the shrunken screenshots or "snapshots" or "thumbnails" that appear on the Google SERP (search engine results page) to the right of the listing.
They used to be activated by rolling over a small magnifying glass icon, now you rollover a relatively large vertical grey bar with a chevron >> pointing to the right and when you do the "Instant (graphic) Preview pops up.
The tool explained below lets you alert Google if you think something is not right.
This is the Webmaster tools help page regarding Instant Previews  (new window).
It still talks about the magnifying glass (18th Oct 2011) even though the icon is gone daddy gone.
Here is a screenshot (below) of the "Instant Previews" category in in Webmaster tools (below).
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