info: and site: different results?

Discussion in 'Google' started by fryman, Nov 21, 2005.

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    This is weird. I do a site: check for a website and I get a list of hundreds of cached pages. However, if I take the url of one of them and do an info: check, I get a " no information found" message.

    why would the site: check show me the page with cache, and an info: check give me no information available? :confused:
     
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  2. NetMidWest

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    I am unable to duplicate the no information available message.
    In searching some of my own pages with the info: query, I am seeing the metatag description for the page. Do the pages you are looking at have descriptions?
     
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    With a site: check I get a list of pages, all of them with a cache link.

    When I copy the url of some of those pages and do an info: check, I get for example
     
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    Try
    info:www.mydomain.tld/pages.php/87006/Van_Morrison/Lost/
    Code (markup):
    adding the trailing slash - and see if that doesn't make a difference. An info search for domain.com/support shows the 'no information' message, while domain.com/support/ shows the description from the metatags. The message 'did not match any documents' generally means it is not in the database. Does the page have a description metatag? Perhaps this is the difference.

    Also, if you are copying and pasting the url from the last line (green) of a serp, as opposed to copying the shortcut from the hyperlink or typing it directly, sometimes Google adds a space in the url to mess you up on that. My assumption has been that when I see the space, they may be doing some click tracking on that datacenter. Make sure there is no space in the url.
     
    NetMidWest, Nov 21, 2005 IP