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Update: March 24, 2005

The spaces are to allow line breaks in narrow windows. Googleguy confirms.

I don’t know if anyone else out there has noticed this, but Google sometimes lists results with superfluous spaces. The spaces aren’t in the actual links, but they are in the text-only URL at the bottom of each listing. While functionally this isn’t much of a problem (unless you are cutting and pasting (which I’ve been known to do to obscure my searches from site administrators, but that’s an entry unto itself)), but it annoys me every time I see it.

Am I the only one that notices? Why does it happen?

Notice the space after “.com/” in the example below:



Go to the Google results shown above