Google-search – Why don’t I see the text from Google’s excerpt when I visit a site

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Sometimes, after opening a Google search result, I discover that the text from the excerpt is nowhere to be found on that page.

Why does this happen?

Best Answer

It's not lying.

The content could be from a cached version of the page. However, in this case if you view the source for that page you find the following:

<div style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold;padding:5px 10px;width:420px;
 border:1px solid #bcbcbc;background:#FFFFAF;"><a name="windowsffport">
 LastPass Portable for Firefox</a></div>

There are actually 27 instances of the word "Portable" on the page. It's just that the text isn't visible on the default "Recommended" tab of that page. If you click on the "Windows" tab that text becomes visible.