Google Disables Inaccurate Supplemental Query

Posted by JohnCarcutt
September 26, 2006

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A few days ago, I wrote about a new Google search query which would show you only results from a site that were listed in Google’s supplemental index. Google has now disabled this search query. The query result seems to now show the standard results for a “site:” query.

I am not surprised they did this as I proved that the supplemental index query was completely inaccurate and of no real value. My guess is since it was starting to circulate within the search community, they did not want people using an inaccurate tool thinking it was accurate. Will Google replace or fix the query? I hope so. I would think the best place for such a useful query would be within their Webmasters Tools. This would allow webmasters to see pages on their site which are flagged as supplemental. The one draw back to this for SEO or marketing shops is that would be you would only be able to check the supplemental results for web sites you controlled.

Kudos to “2K” for finding this in the first place, but bigger kudos go to Google for putting a lid on an inaccurate result so quickly.