This is how the mobile version of Google behaves, is it not?
Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
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#23I think it's a little too early to come to a full conclusion here. Google is constantly testing layout changes in SERPs and it seems like OP ended up in a test. The thread is 4 weeks old and I haven't seen or read anything on these changes anywhere but on this thread. I still think Google's general direction is clear with more webmaster incentives for structured data, amp and also Google just straight up answering qu…
I’ve seen this new presentation too. At first I didn’t think much of it. The version I saw was slightly different. It was using carets to divide the URL, both for domain as well as for directories. (So carets were substituting for ford and slashes; this goes further).
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#24It'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.
Have you tried these Firefox addons:
Google search link fix https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search...
Google Search URL Fixup https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search...
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#25This is how the mobile version of Google behaves, is it not?
I see an icon and address above the title on mobile
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#26They also do open most links in their own google.com wrapper. Time to break them up
They've done this for well over a decade, I remember the transition and there was little outrage.
Before, all the results generated were direct links without any wrappers. Then Google decided they needed to know which of the links people were clicking so they injected a wrapper around every link so they'd get a request from every click.
Sure, it can be used to increase accuracy of search results. It can also be used to taylor data and profiles around individual users at finer and finer granularity.
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#27This is so dangerous, imagine how it will be abused for phishing. Now even an expert user can't tell the difference.
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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.
Probably also the url bar from Chrome, soon to be replaced by a Google keywords-bar.
If only there were an alternative browser...
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#29Just waiting for iOS to include a ‘bypass AMP’ setting.
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#30A year or two ago I noticed that Youtube links were messed up in the search result so maybe the writing has been on the wall for a real long time. For instance, if you google https://www.google.com/search?q=jimmy+eat+world+555 you get a thumbnail with a Youtube URL linking to the actual video but as soon as you right or left click the link it's changed to a google.com link with a lot of parameters. Makes it super fru…
I tested that and when I right clicked the link was just the raw YouTube link. Also tried in incognito and same result. Interesting.