Sep 28

The Supplemental Google Hack v2.0

Posted by Jaimie Sirovich on Sep. 28th, 2006. 5 comments — voice your opinion.

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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.

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Jeremy Luebke

Anyone want to start a pool to see how long this one lasts? ;)

johnm

There will always be a way :)

Paul

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

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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.ukiblog.info&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&filter=0

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