Google is displaying an extra space in my URL's

the links work ok, but it is strange...

[wingslevel]

I've been scratching my head about this one. The green url that appears at the bottom of each of my listings in google seems to add a space after one of the slashes in my string. If I mouse over the actual google title for my listing the space isn't there and the link works fine.

It's my profile site, so check it out if you want.

My site is dynamic, so it could have something to do with the way that google is reading my strings?

Anybody seen this?

[Brett_Tabke]

It just depends on how long your urls are. The spaces serve to purposes: 1) It is for display purposes so that urls wrap in the display. 2) it slows down spiders that screen raid.

[trillianjedi]

it slows down spiders that screen raid.

Can you explain?

TJ

[mipapage]

Humph. I saw this too with some of our URLs, turns out it's the long ones....

[alpine]

By my count it happens for URLs that are either 54 or 55 characters or more

[wingslevel]

makes sense... thanks

serves_us_right_for_making_strings_too_long.htm

[Chris_R]

it slows down spiders that screen raid

I heard this before, but never got it - google uses (99.9%) of the time - true html addresses - wouldn't a spider be viewing the source in most cases (and not a screen) and therefore grap the a href.

I guess maybe there are spiders/rank checkers that try and fool google by pooling the graphics and everything to fake a browser, but doesn't seem to be much of a roadblock to me.

Then again - I don't know how to program - except in c64 basic.

10 PRINT "CHRIS CAN'T PROGRAM"
20 GOTO 10

[killroy]

I'd bet it's almost exclusively the reason of wrapping long URLs.

SN