For a select number of users, Google searches are about to become more annoying. The company is testing autoplaying videos in the Knowledge Panel of search results, as spotted by SEM Post.

For most users, Googling keywords with a strong video component — such as music videos, TV shows, or movies — will typically bring up a video thumbnail on the right side of the results. You have to click it to play the video, but in a small test, some users are seeing these videos start automatically. SEM Post says it saw the test for a number of search terms, such as “Game of Thrones,” “The Lego Ninjago Movie,” and “Justice League release date.”

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