Google tested dotted underlined links inside sponsored result descriptions

Sachin Patel spotted Google placing dotted underlined links in the description text of sponsored results. Clicking one sends the user to the ad's destination URL, the same as clicking the ad headline.

Google has previously tested dotted underlined display URLs, blue dotted underlined sitelinks and dotted underlined AI Overview links. This test differs in putting the dotted underlined links in the ad description itself, closer to the hyperlinks in ad descriptions seen earlier in 2026.