Checking the number of supplemental results

Checking the number of supplemental results for specific domain (http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1398)
Thursday, September 14, 2006
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There's a new Google hack (or something I was not aware of) in town, and I'm in love with it. It allows to see an estimate of how many pages in specific domain are supplemental results. To see the hack in action, just type the following to Google:

site:www.mydomain.ltd ***

Most of the headlines are about how much "waste" google is storing about itself (site:www.google.com **) , but this hack is very usefull for checking competitors and clients. Google however is far away from being the largest entity in supplemental results index. For example Amazon has whooping 15 - 64+ million pages (depending if you are checking with or without www.) in supplemental index, MySpace is in range of 5-71 million pages.

and this means...... what?

not being a smartass, I honestly don't know

A lot of people seem concerned about pages in the Google Supplemental index and what it means. I'm not sure it means anything any more, personally... not since the Big Daddy update and all of its subsequent patches and tweaks. However, for those wondering about how many pages they have (or their competitors may have) in the supplemental index, this is apparently a new way to determine that number.

Given that there are also questions about the current acccuracy of the Google site: query itself, I wouldn't bet any money on the accuracy of this little gimmick but I posted it for those who want to know... :)

If I look at my forum, for example, I get this (today) for site:forum.psychlinks.ca

Results 1 - 10 of about 11,300 from forum.psychlinks.ca

and this for site:forum.psychlinks.ca ***

Results 1 - 10 of about 11,600 from forum.psychlinks.ca for ***

Since these results jump around on a daily basis since Big Daddy, I don't lose any sleep over it - I'm not sure it's accurate and if it is it makes little sense to me.

Google is broken.

ahh I got it. Thank you for taking the time to explain that.

Matt Cutts told us in a video, the site command is in fact broken and that most honest webmasters should not worry about the supplemental results.

I'm out of supplemental hell finally!