Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
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Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#2Remember AOL, anyone? And so, we've come full circle.
Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#3They also do open most links in their own google.com wrapper. Time to break them up
Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#4Maybe an A/B test?
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#5So, no longer a search service, but a proxy service with built in search?
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#6Between amp results, and google masquerading as other domains, the url field was dishonest anyway. Welcome to google s walled garden. Please verify your site so we know who we are banning.
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Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#7Maybe an A/B test?
I don't see how this is relevant.
Even if it was an ab test, we know that Google is looking to remove url structures from search results.
Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#8This is so dangerous, imagine how it will be abused for phishing. Now even an expert user can't tell the difference.
Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#9The title seems a bit misleading, Google do experiments like this all the time.
Of course, should this change be permanent, we would have to be worried, but stating that it is already the case is not true.
PS: here is one example: https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2018/03/23/google-zero-se...
Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
#10It's still regular for me but if true this will probably be the last straw for me. It's already absolutely impossible to send someone a link to a pdf you've found through google, this would make it impossible to send any link. That bloody wrapper is also a fine piece of shit. Search engines should link to content, not appropriate that content, hide who supplies it or mess with the links.