Google New Layout – Fail
Today I started getting the New Google layout, personally I don’t like it, and I feel that the ads blend into nothing most probably a good thing from Google’s point of view to get the clicks but when I searched for site:davidnaylor.co.uk (screen shot below) :
what I noticed was a little odd, that my sitemaps.xml url was malformed, I did a quick search for some other sitemaps but could not replicate the error or even identify the cause, After a little digging I searched and found Journalism.co.uk had a similar issue only this time on the homepage:
and again here :
A little later I found that the Metro had the same issues :
and again :
I’m only guessing but I think it’s when Google is Going to suggest a title and not use the original title from the page.
5 Comments
Stefan - http://www.visits.se/
Do you still get the same results? I saw the same thing this morning, but I cant replicate them now.
One thing i noticed was that Google did not pick the HTML from the source code. Google showed decoded -tags (bold) in their SERP and there are no -tags in the code for that website.
James
It’s like they just started learning PHP or something. Bless ’em.
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Jonny Ross - http://www.jonnyross.com
David, always interested in you analysing Google and agree that this doesn’t seem quite right yet does it?
Marian - http://www.metrixa.com
Nice analogy, I don’t like it either.