Word count in Google search results displayed

Google operating system reports that Google test is with the number of words on a Web page for some types of queries.

The example was for a search on [Belgian waffle recipe] which interestingly is the new Google recipe view.

Here is a screenshot of the number of words in the vicinity of the search result snippet in Google map.

For, as long as been around SEO, SEOs counts and keyword density word about spoken have. A high something can occur the conversation in the SEO world.

Tedster said in a WebmasterWorld thread:

The idea that Google spends resource recording things like word count- or even more, language level - interested in me. I guess, that this is used only for now, but as in the ranking algorithm research could be. But it not these factors with Google's "Intention engine" stretch the imagination too far to foresee, suitable data.

As a rough example, a transactional intent could push pages with very long copy - but might lean to informative or scientific intent towards more and read more level content.