Google Site Command Specific to UK Results Broken?

Jun 7, 2007 - 7:54 am 0 by
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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", you get zero results. I was finally able to reproduce it and here is a screen capture.

google-site-command-uk-0607.png

If you remove the "pages from the UK" filter, and conduct the search again, it does bring back results.

google-site-command-uk-0608.png

If you use the "pages from the UK" filter and add a keyword to the end of the command, it works again. For example a search restricted to UK pages on, on bbc.co.uk for "bank" results returns many results.

google-site-command-uk-0609.png

SEOptimise has other examples of the problems with this site command search at Google.

Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums and WebmasterWorld.

 

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