Google “site:” operator broken

14 Comments

• 1

  Is it just me, or is it only google.co.uk that’s showing results 1-3? I can see all results for the above in google.com

  

  robbie

  6th October 2006 @ 14:47

• 2

  Yes, my blog is with the same problem!

  site:josefernandes.pt

  Regards,
  Jose Fernandes

  

  Jose Fernandes
  http://josefernandes.pt

  6th October 2006 @ 15:49

• 3

  Site operator is seriously broken. Site:davidnaylor.co.uk shows the first few results as non supplemental but the rest are supps. This applies to a LOT of sites right now. First few results ok, but then supps only.

  

  himitsu

  6th October 2006 @ 15:55

• 4

  We have several unique catalog sites, which are all heavily seasoned, youngest is three years old, and we are experiencing the same supplemental results, prior to Tuesday we were authorities in our space. We also just launched a new server with several sites on it and it is only showing first three results for a search. Looks like they really broke it this time, or was that their intent?

  Best Regards

  

  J-Man

  6th October 2006 @ 19:02

• 5

  It had already been broken for more than a week.

  There were sporadic reports of this more than two weeks ago. At first it was only on a few of their 44 datacentres but it gradually spread to almost all of them by a few nights ago.

  Most sites only showed 3 results in total, or showed 3 normal results, followed by some supplemental results, for a site total that was often less than 10% of the real number of pages.

  The supplemental results often had a date only a few weeks old, whereas the “correct” results had mainly being showing a cache date from 6 months ago. Most sites returned almost nothing from the normal index.

  This morning it looks like the problem has been fixed again.

  Was this an import of data to the servers that went seriously wrong, or was it that data meant for the normal index just went missing, or was the data really there and it was just a bug in pulling that data from the database to populate the search results?

  I’ll guess we’ll never know….

  

  g1smd

  7th October 2006 @ 21:43

• 6

  They were pushing a new binary; the site: command is showing plenty of results for me now.

  

  Matt Cutts
  http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/

  8th October 2006 @ 02:09

• 7

  I’ve recently seen a site with zero site: results but still has pages that return cache: results. any idea what’s going on there?

  

  Craig

  9th October 2006 @ 16:58

• 8

  Craig TBH I would need to see the site.

  DaveN

  

  admin

  9th October 2006 @ 17:02

• 9

  Will it ever stop? Google used to be predictable and stable. Oh boy, do I long for those days.. Oh well. I guess that is just another “feature” to add to the list.

  

  Bjorn Solstad
  http://www.devenia.com/

  10th October 2006 @ 01:05

• 10

  Congrats on your Matt Cutt’s link!

  

  JLH
  http://www.hvac-direct.com

  11th October 2006 @ 16:14

• 11

  Good work David - glad you helped to raise awareness with Matt on this one.

  

  Whitey
  http://www.cheaperthanhotels.co.uk

  13th October 2006 @ 02:15

• 12

  Anybody saw that the supplemental index operator not working any more?
  ( site:domain.com ***)

  

  B-Scan
  http://www.seofruits.com.hr/

  13th October 2006 @ 08:17

• 13

  If all of your pages are supposed to be listed as www then this search:

  site:domain.com -inurl:www

  will still show you all of your www Supplemental Results.

  You might need to add &filter=0 to the search URL to get the full picture.

  

  g1smd

  14th October 2006 @ 15:15

• 14

  Links to this page from other sites were originally indexed as http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/archives/2006/10/06/google-site-operator-broken/ but that URL now returns a 404 error.

  There is no 301 redirect to get you to the new URL here at: http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/google-site-operator-broken.html

  Likewise for the rest of the old “archive” URLs.

  

  g1smd

  2nd November 2007 @ 00:09

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