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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:
Without Capitalization:
Here are more screen shots from Twitter:
I'm hankering for a @rustybrick slap down. Have you ever seen capitalisation of domain names in the SERPs? Doesn't seem to be for all of the results either (note: the top one in the screenshot) pic.twitter.com/brtMxNHSUp
— Richard Lawrence (@richlawre) September 3, 2019
Hello! Google changes letter case for all words in domain. I noticed it only in german SERP. What is this? @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/jENa85mKVR
— Sergio Pastbin (@glamlemon) September 3, 2019
New thing @Google. Inner page URL is not visible @googlewmc @JohnMu @rustybrick @glenngabe #SEO. pic.twitter.com/QNDy3jR3Me
— Kiran (@ukiran_2) September 3, 2019
There are even complaints about this in the Google Webmaster Help forums.
Do you see this?
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
