When will Rich Snippets become widely available?

Adeel from Manchester, UK asks:

"When do you recon Rich Snippets will be made widely available? Can I suggest a tool in Google Webmaster Tools that lets you view (or preview) Rich Snippets from your site?"

This video is part of a "Grab Bag" series in which Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team, answers questions from users. We're not currently taking new video questions, so your best bet for getting an answer about webmaster-related search issues is to head to our help forum: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• google
• rich snippets
• webmasters

[StalkerB]

Is that a green screen background? ,':|

[GoogleWebmasterHelp]

Nope, just an interesting background in one of our conference rooms. Since Matt is wearing green it would be quite difficult to use a green screen. :)

[TheBoredSwede]

What is a "Rich Snippet"? :o

[GoogleWebmasterHelp]

Searching for [Rich Snippets] on your favorite search engine should provide some useful results.

[inofertas]

hi Matt; i ask for rich snippets one year ago for my site but i am still waiting your answers. grettings.

[agapitoflores001]

Matt is really very smart. Thumbs up.

[Johnsonharris]

This is very informative. Rich Snippets give users convenient summary information about their search results. I read about this. I just confused, how can it applies to my sites? Can you explain?

Thanks in advance.

[compucar03]

Thanks for doing these. I am a webmaster for a small net business, do all my website stuff myself and always find these interesting and usually very helpful.