When I search Google for a Python related term (e.g. "sqlite3 row" - see attached screenshot) I get back two results - one for the Python 2 documentation and one for the Python 3 documentation.

There is currently no indicator which result is for which version of Python.

Comparing https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html with https://docs.python.org/2/library/sqlite3.html I think the problem is the way the title elements are designed:

sqlite3 — DB-API 2.0 interface for SQLite databases — Python 3.8.3rc1 documentation

v.s.

11.13. sqlite3 — DB-API 2.0 interface for SQLite databases - Python 2.7.18 documentation

As you can see in the attached screenshot, Google (at least in my desktop browser) chooses to truncate those titles before they get to the bit indicating the version of Python.

It may be worth consulting with Google directly about the best way to address this. Moving the Python version indicator to the start of the title may or may not be the best approach.

I asked about this on Twitter and got a couple of tips from Google engineers: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1258767730263552000

It sounds like a good solution would be to explicitly design the breadcrumbs using this mechanism: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/breadcrumb?hl=en#json-ld

Maybe "docs.python.org > Python 3.8 > sqlite3" would be a good fix here?

Hi Simon, thanks for reporting!

This looks like a Google issue, not a Python documentation issue: Google tries to deduce something better than the URL to display to the user, and fails, please open the issue on the Google bug tracker instead.

(As a side note, DuckDuckGo displays it correctly (see attached screenshot).)

Merci Julien j'ai reussi à régler le même problème rencontré sur mon site https://lesmarketing.fr/agence-seo-montpellier/

Hey Simon, you can use the breadcrumb markup and other markups structured data with json on your webpage if you want google to read more efficiently your page in the browser. I used it on my <a href="https://www.mixy-design.com/">web agency website</a> if you want to have a look at the structure ;)