Google has decided to eliminate the breadcrumb feature from mobile search results, leaving only the domain in the search snippets. The technology giant argues that breadcrumbs, often truncated on smaller mobile screens, do not significantly assist users during mobile searches. This change aims to present a more streamlined and cleaner visual appearance of URLs in mobile results. However, desktop search results will still display both breadcrumbs and domains, and this global change affects all users across different languages and regions.
Because of how breadcrumbs get truncated on smaller screens, we've found the breadcrumb element isn't as useful to people who are searching on mobile.
Google said this is to provide a "cleaner, more streamlined look for how URLs appear in search results."
This is a global launch and will affect all mobile results in "all languages and regions."
The desktop search results will continue to have the breadcrumb and domain in the snippets.
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