: Why is Google omitting commas from the meta description tag in its search results? I've recently improved the description meta tag for my website to be more descriptive of the visited webpage.

@Moriarity557

I checked several sites that contain large numbers in their SERP description. The pattern seems to be as follows:


When the description is being pulled from the meta description, it loses the commas.
When the description is being pulled from content on the page, it keeps the commas.


That seems to be how it works, though I'd be interested if anyone finds an example of that not being the case.

As to why it works like that, Google don't ever seem to have ever mentioned it so we are left to guesswork.

My suspicion is simply that a page's description will be saved in a different field in their database to the page's content. Presumably then one field has the numbers re-formatted before saving and the other does not. What you see in the listings will be the version of the description they have saved in their database.

If they were deliberately reformatting numbers for style reasons before display, then I'm sure they would do it on both the meta description and page content versions. They are probably simply unaware of this mild styling discrepancy (this post seems to be the only place where it is mentioned - so well spotted!).

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