Google abandons experiment to hide parts of site URLs in the Chrome address bar, which ran from June 2020 to June 2021 (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

Catalin Cimpanu / The Record:
Google abandons experiment to hide parts of site URLs in the Chrome address bar, which ran from June 2020 to June 2021  —  Google's experiment to hide parts of a site's URL in the Chrome address bar (the Omnibox) has failed and has been removed from the browser earlier this week.