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fryman
03-05-2006, 05:11 AM
I can't recall seeing such a disaster happening at Google... I don't know what they are doing, but right now it is just a huge mess. Pages showing up as supplemental results everywhere, with no cache link on them. PR showing as 0 on the toolbar, even though tools like SEOchat's PR checker show it as 3 on every datacenter... site: commands showing 100,000 pages for someone, and 3,000 for someone else... just a big sloppy mess

Wonder when this will be sorted out.

Wit
03-05-2006, 08:06 AM
Googleguy (G bless him) sorta promised he'd look into it

webmasterworld.com/forum30/33351-11-15.htm
msg #:160

I'm happy to ask someone to check this out. Please send an email to XXXX with specific domains and the keyword "gonesupplemental". I have a theory about this, which I'm asking the crawl/index guys to check out, but I'll need 5-10 specific examples to check if my theory holds. If my guess is right, I'll try to get the crawl/index folks to get things back to the previous behavior.

Can't hurt (much) to try, I guess.

sufyaaan
03-05-2006, 01:05 PM
Whenever something messes up in the SERPs to a large scale as is the case at the moment, I tend to relax and wait until things themselves get clear; instead of making false conclusions and getting confused. As pointed out by Wit above, even GoogleGuy is not sure what has happened to the big G right now. So, our best bet would be to give it a while before reaching a conclusion and get baffled. Just my 2 cents! ;)