New URL Taxonomy in Google: Breadcrumb Navigation
I was snooping around Google.co.uk the other day, specifically checking out incoming links to a number of websites using the [link:www.blahblahblah.com] operator, and noticed the way URLs are displayed for these results is different for some while others have remained the same. It looks like the URL taxonomy for certain link: queries return URLs that contain a new symbol: > (they look like breadcrumbs). Take a look:
I initially thought those URLs that exceeded a certain character length were the ones receiving this updated URL taxonomy, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I can’t figure out what triggers the new URL structure. I’m actually leaning toward it being another bit of Caffeine that has made it’s way to the masses. Have any ideas as to what triggers it?
Update: Google announced these changes occur when URLs are either too long or too short. They’re now pulling breadcrumbs to help provide more information to users. Also, another reason to closely watch the international search engines as this development showed up in Google.co.uk earlier than the official announcement from Google.
