Google Tests Capitalizing URLs Of Snippets In Search Results

Google looks to be testing, or maybe it is a bug, capitalizing the URL or breadcrumb part of the snippets in the search results. I see a number of folks on Twitter chatting about it and I have numerous screen shots of this in action.

Here are some screen shots Chris Jones from Screaming Frog sent me via email showing with the capitalization and without.

With Capitalization:

Without Capitalization:

Here are more screen shots from Twitter:

I’m hankering for a @rustybrick slap down. Have you ever seen capitalisation of domain names in the SERPs? Doesn’t seem to be for all of the results either (note: the top one in the screenshot) pic.twitter.com/brtMxNHSUp

— Richard Lawrence (@richlawre) September 3, 2019

Hello! Google changes letter case for all words in domain. I noticed it only in german SERP. What is this? @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/jENa85mKVR

— Sergio Pastbin (@glamlemon) September 3, 2019

New thing @Google. Inner page URL is not visible @googlewmc @JohnMu @rustybrick @glenngabe #SEO. pic.twitter.com/QNDy3jR3Me

— Kiran (@ukiran_2) September 3, 2019

There are even complaints about this in the Google Webmaster Help forums.

Do you see this?

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.