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Barry Welford — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:09:37 -0000

I'm not sure whether as Michael points out, different data centres may produce different results. In my searches, the site:domain.com/& search always produces the same number of web pages as site:domain.com/ search. I did not look at the ordering of those web pages.

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Elizabeth Able — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:51:38 -0000

Hmmm... For one new site of about 100 pages, I am seeing 35 pages show up with site:http://domain.com. An exact copy of the top eight of those 35 shows in a search for site:http://domain.com/*. Using site:http://domain.com/& shows 33 pages, in a slightly different order than the other two searches.

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Barry Welford — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:29:54 -0000

I agree, Michael, but I don't think Google sees how its bottom line will be better off if it goes along with our wishes.

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@Michael_Martinez — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:24:24 -0000

I've only been using the site:domain/& and site:domain/* queries with trepidation but they appear to be working for me. It may be that, if Google is closing down the reporting, they are doing on a data center-by-data center basis or perhaps through a recrawl of the Web.

Simply doing away with visible indications of their Web Apartheid is not acceptable. Google needs to treat all Supplemental Pages equally with all Main Web Index pages -- let them rank competitively for queries, pass link anchor text, and pass PageRank.

Of course, Google is always welcome to stop allowing sites to pass link anchor text. It's a poor measurement of relevance that has been way overabused by the SEO industry and spammers alike.

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Barry Welford — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:10:13 -0000

Thanks for the comment, webprofessor. It certainly is the final result that counts. However the % of web pages in the regular index gives a quick alert relative to similar websites if you have a global problem or not.

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webprofessor — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:45:59 -0000

Thats a really nice find. I don't know if I care much though about the supplemental index. I tend to just rely on my logs to determine if my pages are important enough for google. I mean honestly if I am not in the supplemental index but on page 10 of the serps is there really a difference?