Following the parsing mechanism update, the short answer appearing in SERPs for each People Also Ask (PAA) listing is being captured by AWR. Besides the PAA's title (question) and the URL, one can now check the meta description (the snippet containing a short answer to the associated question).
💡The ranking positions of PAA results are being reported when tracking the Universal version of Google. More details on Google's monitoring preferences can be found here.
The PAAs meta descriptions are not displayed in the UI but they can be easily exported either from the UI using the Top Sites report or via API with the help of the export top sites API call.
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