# Quickly explain what Onebox is?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/quickly-explain-what-onebox-is/28114
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [April 30, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quickly-explain-what-onebox-is/28114 "2015-04-30T00:44:03Z")
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I believe it’s a name Google came up with ~20 years ago, it was “one box” to show certain types of answers to queries

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