I would think it would return all .com sites sorted by pagerank, but I seem to be missing something as the top result is only a PR8.
It displays all .COMS indexed by google. As the normal SERPS are not in the order of pagerank ..... similarly this query would also NOT be in order of page rank
Well, searching for "games" doesn't just sort websites that have the word "games" in them by page rank. It displays what google "thinks" are pages that the 'authority' on 'games'. So my question is, what can we learn from the results of "site:.com" Are some sites more ".com" than others? Unless this is a random spit, we can probably learn something from this. Any ideas?
site:.com shows you the number of .com websites that are indexed in googles database just like - site:.net shows you the number of .net websites that are indexed
Oh I understand that, my question is about the RANKING of the SERP for site:.com and site:.net Why are these sites at the top? They certainly don't have the highest PageRank. Maybe the highest TrustRank?
TrustRank is mostlikely not in force yet. This will be a part of the associative variables that Google is now working on and demonstraded in the University of Washington video. That being said, the order of a SITE: command in Google does reflect general relavancy and which pages Google deems the strongest for all factors, links, content, and beyond. What does this mean to you? Well, for example, if you have a page about Blue Widgets that you want people to go to, but that page is low in your SITEOMAIN.com SERPS, you might want to add something about those Blue Widgets into a stronger ranking page and link that page to your Blue Widgets page. In other words, the SITEOMAIN.com command can help to show you both what may need working on AND the strengths your site already possess, strengths you can exploit to improve your traffic.
you cant use periods in search queries, so effectively youre doing a site:com query. so i guess the explanation for those serps can be the naming of the page title (e.g. "grande communications") and domain choice (e.g. "grandecom.com")
If title and domain name are the criteria then : www.v-com.com with its domain and title "VCOM: V Communications. ..." would have been the #1 for the query site:com going by the keyword position
"site:domain.com" query will show you the number of pages indexed by the SE inurl:search phrase It will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url. For examle, [inurl:digitalpoint forums] will return documents that mention the word "digitalpoint" in their url, and mention the word "forums" anywhere in the document (url or no). Note there can be no space between the "inurl:" and the following word.