It appears that changes have been made to the site: operator. In many cases the command is now showing at most 2 or 3 pages regardless of the number of pages indexed e.g. 1-3 of 496 or 1-2 of 367. Anyone got a pluasible explanation? Are we seeing the death of the advanced operators at Google?
hi Yes the site: and info: operator have been disabled (lack of a better word) by Google Now they want you to use http://www.google.com/webmasters/ And the site status wizard Hope this helps
well: CACHE brings up pages from months ago - the command is probably working fine, but the cache information itself is wrong/out of date SIMILAR TO has never done anything for me to start with, I never understood it LINK TO hasn't worked for years SITE is now completely unreliable but CONTAIN THE TERM (which i've never had cause to use anyway but just had a look) seems on the face of it to work... So yes, I think death is imminent for these...probably along with toolbar PR, consistent SERPS and reliable search results. I wonder what the future holds?
That being the case it seems a bit weird that Sitemaps gives us handy links to each of the operators for checking the index stats?
Here's a good one I was testing earlier: 1. site:http://web.infoave.net/ gives 7250 results; 2. from my DC I can see http://web.infoave.net/~anchor/daycaren.htm listed in the index from the above site: command (1st page ~#3); 3. both site:web.infoave.net/~anchor/daycaren.htm and site:http://web.infoave.net/~anchor/daycaren.htm return zero results?
I am digging back and trying to find where Google specifically dropped the usage of both but having a bit of a time (I surf alot lol) You can start here however http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/type/googleseo/page/2/ Peace
Site operator has definatly changed, for one site it which has some 388,000 pages indexed, shows 1-9 of about 388,000. Which was'nt the case earlier. This maybe again one of many problems that google is facing right now.