What's more annoying than knowing your site has 1000s of supplemental search results?
Not being able to conveniently view them to see what's wrong ...
The Google hack mentioned here enumerates the supplemental pages of a domain, and seemed quite useful to this end. Perhaps Google doesn't want to make our lives too easy, though, because it appears that it no longer works as before.
Then I recalled that someone had also created a great tool that reports the number of supplemental results across DCs, and I wondered if his tool broke. It didn't. Why? He simply appends a "-this_is_a_random_string" to the query string, and viola! Example:
site:www.lawyerseek.com *** -this_is_a_random_string
Original information on SEOmoz here.












September 29th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
[...] 不过,要查询网站内补充结果数量,还是有其他办法的。seoegghead介绍了另一个途径,使用如下的命令格式: site:www.highdiy.com *** -this_is_a_random_string [...]
September 29th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
Anyone want to start a pool to see how long this one lasts?
October 7th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
There will always be a way
October 7th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Hi,
This seems to work very well with smaller sites, but can anyone explain what is going on here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.overstock.com&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&filter=0
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=site%3Awww.overstock.com+***+-this_is_a_random_string&btnG=Search
that leaves 674,000 - 425,000 = 249,000 pages in the main index. Why then do I start seeing supplemental results after 800 results?
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.overstock.com&hl=en&lr=&start=810&sa=N&filter=0
Thanks,
Paul