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TatiAnA
Mar 6th 2007, 3:14 am
Well guys, i just found an answer to my question regarding my pages removed by google and thought about sharing this to others having the same problem. When you do a site:domain.com query in google, they used to display all the site's pages indexed in Google. But the past few weeks, a lot of people were getting "see the results we ommitted" at the bottom of the first page!

This freaked me out honestly. But for those of you experiencing this, you shouldn't be bothered.Vanessa Fox at Google Webmaster Central clarified the issues about this.

Historically, Google has avoided showing pages that appear to be duplicate (e.g., pages with the same title and description) in search results. Our goal is to provide useful results to the searcher. However, with a site: command, searchers are likely looking for a full list of results from that site, so we are making a change to do that. In some cases, a site: search doesn't show a full list of results even when the pages are different, and we are resolving that issue as well. Note that this is a display issue only and doesn't in any way affect search rankings. If you see this behavior, simply click the "repeat the search with omitted results included" link to see the full list. The pages that initially don't display continue to show up for regular queries. The display issue affects only a site: search with no associated query. In addition, this display issue is unrelated to supplemental results. Any pages in supplemental results display "Supplemental Result" beside the URL.

See full post here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/03/using-site-command.html

ajsa52
Mar 6th 2007, 3:29 am
Thanks for sharing.

The most interesting parts for me are:
"...Any pages in supplemental results display "Supplemental Result" beside the URL..."
I dind't notice that before.

"...site: search with no associated query..."
You must use "site:www.yoursite.xxx" or "site:yoursite.com" without spaces in query.

And a question, why is titled "260 problem" ?

TatiAnA
Mar 6th 2007, 5:36 am
Because when you do a site: query, and you're one of those domain owner having this issue, you will see this message on the result:

"Results 1 - 4 of about 260 from www.yourdomain.com"

You can try site:usa.gov, they are one of those experiencing this.

Sunny side
Mar 6th 2007, 6:33 am
There is nothing bad about it - every page of a site should be unique, I had 2 pages out of 20 in supplemental - i had a closer look and saw that I did not personalized the title - so I did it - and now have all of them out of supplemental!

TatiAnA
Mar 6th 2007, 6:45 pm
There is nothing bad about it - every page of a site should be unique, I had 2 pages out of 20 in supplemental - i had a closer look and saw that I did not personalized the title - so I did it - and now have all of them out of supplemental!

The supplemental is different from the 260 problem issue.