New and Improved “site:” search at Google
Friday, Vanessa Fox writes over at Google’s Webmaster Central Blog on some changes coming for the “site:” search command. In her post “Using the site: command” Vanessa does a good job of explaining the current usage of this command and how the coming changes will affect the results of the query.
Currently when using this command it is quite common for the results to only display a portion of the pages on a site. I am sure we have all see the “repeat the search with omitted results included” from time to time. This usually happens when Google identifies pages as duplicate or the pages have been included in Google’s Supplemental index for one reason or another.
Kudo’s to Google! The command is changing to show all pages they know about the site. This opens the command to be useful to people who are actually using the command to find content on a particular site. Don’t wonder if they have plans to make this change to the “link:” I am sure they don’t. Recently Google has made the complete list of inbound links available to webmasters via a new feature in their Webmasters Tools, no need to do it here too.
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