I'm in this A/B test too, and like you, it makes me anxious. I've become so accustomed to looking at the full URL (in green) of what I'm about to click on, that without having it there, I trust Google search results less as a whole.
The one that got me was when a search result pointed me to a site that was something like:
example.com/?ipaddr=10.3.4.3
And Google, in an attempt to be helpful, showed me this:
example.com > ...
> It makes people even more ignorant about the technologies they depend on, and exposes them to further risk of being exploited.
This is the point. If you've ever viewed an AMP site using Mobile Safari, you'll still see "google.com" in the Location Bar, instead of the site's own domain name. Google's fix for this is to try to kill the URL.
The one that got me was when a search result pointed me to a site that was something like:
And Google, in an attempt to be helpful, showed me this: > It makes people even more ignorant about the technologies they depend on, and exposes them to further risk of being exploited.This is the point. If you've ever viewed an AMP site using Mobile Safari, you'll still see "google.com" in the Location Bar, instead of the site's own domain name. Google's fix for this is to try to kill the URL.