Google Removes File Size From Search Results Page

Jun 15, 2009 - 8:23 am 5 by
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It appears that Google has quietly removed the file size figure from the search results. I am not sure when this happened, it could have been a year ago, but it did happen.

A year and a half ago I took a screen capture of a search result for my company rustybrick and it had the file size of the page listed in the search results.

File Size Gone from Google

Now, the same search, does not return the file size:

File Size Gone from Google SERPs

A WebmasterWorld thread recently noticed this go missing from the search results. Most people are in favor of removing the file size label, being that many people have broadband connections these days. They rather see other information listed in the search results, such as if the site is in flash or if there is video or PDFs on the page, as opposed to the file size of a given web page.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

 

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