Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'site command'

Yahoo Site Command Works Without Applying [site:]?

I am not sure if this is new but it seems if you search in Yahoo for www.domain.com, Yahoo will return results as if you submitted a site command to Yahoo. For example, a search on www.seroundtable.com returns about 18,800,...

Pages Dropping Out of the Google.com Search Index

A WebmasterWorld thread is reporting, in heavy numbers, that Google is returning fewer results for sites they have in their index. What I mean is that if you do a site:www.domain.com command in Google, the number of results being returned...

Using Caps in Google.com Site Command Returns Different Results

A WebmasterWorld thread notes that if you do a site command search using SITE: versus using site:, Google will return different results. For example, lets compare site command results for the Search Engine Roundtable. - site:www.seroundtable.com returns about 7,990 results....

Google Site Command Specific to UK Results Broken?

There have been lingering reports at both Search Engine Roundtable Forums and WebmasterWorld that Google's site command feature for the UK search engine is broken. For example, if you conduct a site:www.bbc.co.uk and restrict it to "pages from the UK",...

Google Updating Site Command For SEOs & Webmasters

Vanessa Fox at Google Webmaster Central posted a blog entry named using the site: command where she explains that they are updating the site command to make it more useful for Webmasters. Historically, Google has avoided showing pages that appear...

Google Site Command Becoming More Accurate?

A WebmasterWorld thread has some credible sources claiming the site:www.domain.com, site command, at Google is becoming more accurate. In the past, conducting a site command on a domain may have returned a lot more pages than what is currently accessible...

Google's Site Operator Shows Sites Off Domain

I received an email from the fine folks over at the Alacra Blog asking Is Google [site:] command broken? I did my own tests and it seemed fine when I tested it, but they had proof, an image with the...


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