ACK! •• in title.

[rfgdxm1]

On a page on a site I precede the title with 2 HTML bullet characters. Looks right on the regular SERPs. However, I noticed on one of those Google Dance checking sites, when the search is in the form:

[www-va.google.com...]

The 2 bullets become •• before the title. • is a standard HTML entity, and this should not be. I hope this is a weird glitch, and not the future way of Google handling this.

[Stefan]

-va seems rather whacked to me. It has something different going on with it... I wouldn't trust it to be representative of anything right now. It is the one dc that has a deep page of ours inexplicably showing as #2 on an indent serp after the index at #1... all the others, the main page is indent at #2, as always.

[rfgdxm1]

EVERY datacenter is doing this.

[skipfactor]

I've got 2 hearts still showing on the DCs I've checked.

[Stefan]

Sorry, rfgdxm1, just checked again... it's back to normal. It was right out of sync earlier.

Maybe just a glitch with your ••. Remember how messed up things were for a little while after dom/esm? I bet in a few days the rolling update returns, the old data that Google has been bringing back from the dead will disappear again, and things will be more normal.

My apologies for the relative uselessness of my two posts in this thread.... I have no idea in the slightest about ••. I did get a few pages online today though... :-)

[rfgdxm1]

Looks like a glitch to me. As this effects only that compact mode of display, and doesn't show on usual searches, little concern. However, having that appear live to the whole world of normal searchers would NOT be something I'd appreciate.