Is This Strange Google Site Command Behavior?

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April 11, 2008

Is This Strange Google Site Command Behavior?

I don't think this is exactly related to Google mixing up titles and URLs from yesterday (if you have examples, please comment, so Matt can address them at Google). But over at Search Engine Roundtable Forums, PPCBlogger showed us an example of something I found to be a bit out of the norm for Google.

A search in Google for www.quiltersguild.org.uk/index.php?page=56 returns no results:

But when you search for that URL in this syntax, site:www.quiltersguild.org.uk/ 56, it shows the result:

Now, typically, if the page is indexed, it should come up for a search on the URL alone. For example, a search on http://forums.seroundtable.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2 returns a result.

Just seems a bit strange to me.

Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums.

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posted rustybrick in Google Optimization at April 11, 2008 7:01 AM Comments (8)

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What about this kind of behaviour : http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=info%3Awww.emilegarcin.fr&btnG=Rechercher&meta=

As, of course, both sites are differents and seperated for a long time... Google contact are unable so far to explain to me what is happening on this site.

Posted by François Houste at April 11, 2008 07:28

Yes, I've seen this occurring a few times recently and was somewhat baffled by it. I was (semi-seriously) beginning to wonder if I'd found a new way of detecting supplemental pages!

Posted by Bill Marshall at April 11, 2008 10:08

URL queries don't appear to work for pages in the Supplemental Results Index.

Neither do title queries, link queries, intext queries, etc.

Of course, if you specify a rare or unique word there is a good chance the supplemental pages will be shown.

Posted by Michael Martinez at April 11, 2008 13:04

I have PR4 pages doing this. Last crawl date was 4 days ago aswell...

Maybe it is supplemental, but it doesn't sound like a normal sup index page with those stats.

Posted by PPCblogger at April 11, 2008 13:26

I have PR4 pages doing this. Last crawl date was 4 days ago aswell...

Maybe it is supplemental, but it doesn't sound like a normal sup index page with those stats.

Posted by PPCblogger at April 11, 2008 13:26

Thanks for confirming that Michael, maybe I should take my intuitions more seriously ;-)
Any idea when this started?

Posted by Bill Marshall at April 12, 2008 07:24

The similar titles on all the pages is the reason.. google wont let it come up in the index just because there are many other pages similar pages to it. kind of supplemental index thing..

Posted by lovekills_s at April 14, 2008 01:32

I think Michael has hit the nail on the head.

I have found and analysed about 15-20 pages now and on the whole 95% of them are low PR with low crawl frequency.

So they sound very much supplemental...

Posted by PPCblogger at April 14, 2008 07:08

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