Google Tests Capitalizing URLs Of Snippets In Search Results

Sep 3, 2019 - 7:53 am 3 by
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Google looks to be testing, or maybe it is a bug, capitalizing the URL or breadcrumb part of the snippets in the search results. I see a number of folks on Twitter chatting about it and I have numerous screen shots of this in action.

Here are some screen shots Chris Jones from Screaming Frog sent me via email showing with the capitalization and without.

With Capitalization:

Google Url Snippet Caps

Without Capitalization:

Google Url Snippet No Caps

Here are more screen shots from Twitter:

There are even complaints about this in the Google Webmaster Help forums.

Do you see this?

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

 

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