Long unbreakable URLs creating huge spaces in serps.

Long URLs taht google cannot break wrap under AdWords creating blank space

[killroy]

I've now seen several SERPS where the url includes extremely long filenames of the form: word_word_word_word and so on.

The first result wraps right after the / after the domain, and hte filename pops down UNDERNEATH the adWords on the side, causing the first result to be the only page listed above the fold with a huge space underneath.

I've seen it a few times, and if this starts gettign popular, we'll see lots of looooooooong URLs in the future, it's ugly and I hope Google will take care of it before it becomes epedemic.

SN

[edited by: Marcia at 5:23 am (utc) on Aug. 9, 2003]
[edit reason] No direct appeals, please. [/edit]

[Marcia]

I've been seeing that also. I have some URLs of my own that are too long and wrap unsightly, which is good enough reason to keep directory structures from being too deep and filenames from being too long. It really doesn't look good. It's probably a simple formatting issue, but I think we need to think about that when we're putting site together, keeping it in mind.

[killroy]

I'm more concerned about abuse from SEOs to create artifically long unwrapable names so that a Number one position also is the only one on the screen.

SN