Passage Extractor

What this tool extracts

This tool splits your content into sentences and scores each one against traits that correlate with Google featured snippets and AI-overview quoting: definition phrasing ("is", "refers to", "defined as"), structured language ("first", "steps", "tips"), an ideal length window (40-200 characters, roughly what fits in a snippet box), presence of numbers or data, and a strong opening subject ("The", "This", "It"). The top 10 highest-scoring sentences are returned with their score and the specific reasons they scored well.

It's a heuristic, not a guarantee — Google's actual snippet selection considers query match, page authority, and structured markup that this tool has no visibility into. What it reliably does is surface the sentences in your draft that are already shaped like snippet-worthy answers, so you can polish them or make sure they're not buried mid-paragraph.

When to use it

Run it on a draft before publishing when you're targeting featured snippets or "People Also Ask" boxes for a specific query — paste the article and check whether your intended answer sentence is even in the top 10, or whether it's currently too long, too vague, or missing a clear subject. It's also useful for content going into AI-generated answer engines and chat assistants, since those systems tend to quote self-contained, definition-style sentences much like Google's snippet algorithm does.

If your target answer sentence doesn't score well, the reasons listed for higher-scoring sentences tell you what to fix: shorten it toward 40-200 characters, open with a direct subject instead of a transition word, and phrase it as a definition ("X is...") rather than a description leading up to one.

Example

Paste a paragraph explaining caching, including the sentence "A CDN is a distributed network of servers that caches content closer to users to reduce latency." That sentence scores highly for "definition" (contains "is"), "ideal length" (under 200 characters), and "strong start" ("A" — close enough to the strong-start pattern) — making it a good candidate to lead a section or answer a "what is a CDN" query directly.