Google Search Perspectives

Google seems to be testing a new search box and feature titled “perspectives.” Perspectives seem to give searchers answers to a more broad and maybe philosophical type of query.

This was spotted by Bill Neto on Twitter and I was able to replicate this myself in one mobile browser. Here is what it looks like for a query on [why contribute to Wikipedia].

Normally this would generate a simple featured snippet but like this:

This kind of reminds me of the from the web box actually.

What do you think of this?

Forum discussion at Twitter.