Google Tests Search Results Listings Without Descriptions

Google tests how searchers would react to not seeing a snippet description in the search results.

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Gianluca Fiorelli spotted a new Google test, or maybe a Google bug, where Google removed the descriptions from the search results listing page. All you see are clickable titles and URLs, but nothing in between. Typically, you’d see a description snippet, a line or two, describing the web page you are looking at in the Google search results.

This Google tests removes that description section. Here is a picture from Gianluca:

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He was able to see this on Google.ES, i.e. Google Spain. I am personally not able to replicate it but it wouldn’t surprise me if Google is indeed testing this. Personally, I am not a fan of this look but Google does test these things. I doubt this test will make it to the public.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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