Google Sometimes Not Grouping Results From Same Domain?

Apr 7, 2008 - 7:57 am 3 by

Barry Welford at Cre8asite Forums spotted and screen captured an interesting Google slip up earlier. Typically, if Google displays a search result from the same domain name on a page, it will group that result (i.e. indent the result) under the first result. But Barry Welford spotted a case, which I cannot reproduce, of Google showing a second listing as a stand alone result in the Google search results.

Here is a screen capture from Barry W:

Google Not Grouping Results?

This is far from common Google practices. What it looks like to me, now at least, is the norm:

Google Grouping Results

Was it a temporary bug?

Forum discussion at Cre8asite Forums.

 

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