Whoa! Google Using Drupal's Breadcrumbs?

Submitted by Jeff Geerling on November 20, 2009 - 1:54pm

It would seem Google has rolled out a new indexing/display feature that finds breadcrumbs and displays them instead of URLs for certain search results. Drupal's already game, it seems, judging by numerous searches I've taken a glance at today:

Drupal's Breadcrumb-enabled Search Results

I guess since Drupal's built towards this kind of data heirarchy, Google quickly and easily indexes the breadcrumbs... any other sites/CMSs already in the index in this manner?

Also, I wonder what this will do in terms of eye tracking and such - the first time I noticed it, my eye went to the URL immediately - of course, that could just be due to the novelty of the thing.

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Google
seo
drupal
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Comments

Anonymous's picture

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 23, 2009 - 9:08am.

Whoa, it's "whoa," not "woah."

Thanks for the tidbit.

Hanna's picture

Submitted by Hanna (not verified) on November 29, 2009 - 12:42am.

Seems Google is improving their search results all the time. And I thought that angient looking search never improves with in time. What next, working hovering menus from those breadcrumbs.

I hope that spammer sites and others don't get that menu option too. Seems like you can't see the actual url anymore from that result at all?

Hanna

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Submitted by Wim Mostrey (not verified) on December 17, 2009 - 7:00am.

This really is an amazing new feature. I was looking for a module and came across an issue report on that module. This is the breadcrumb Google provices:

drupal.org › ... › Modules › [module] › Issues

So you can go straight to the module's project page instead of going tot he issue and then using the d.o breadcrumb.