Marcia - 1:14 am on Jan 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

This is what it looks like in the cache for pages that were redirected to another domain about a year ago (or more):

This is a version of [live.com...] as it looked when our crawler examined the site on 1/5/2007. The page you see below is the version in our index that was used to rank this page in the results to your recent query. This is not necessarily the most recent version of the page - to see the most recent version of this page, visit the page on the web. Live is not affiliated with the content nor parties responsible for the page displayed below. Moved Permanently The document has moved [linked]here[/linked].

Both of those sites have been on the same hosting for a couple of years, so it isn't a changed hosting issue.

There are a couple of sites that got KILLED when hosting was moved this past summer though, but with those two there might be something in the way the server is configured for the name-based hosting & IP numbers on their reseller accounts.

Another thing: when the number of pages with the site: operator is given it's WAY inflated. For one site it says 287 pages and it's got a total of about 60.

Also: the wording of this is troublesome:

below is the version in our index that was used to rank this page in the results to your recent query

If what was used to rank the page is what's shown below, how can that or the page redirected to rank for relevant search terms when the content is the 301 message? See what I'm driving at? If there's an irregularity with that, then those pages (the new ones) won't be able to rank, they'll be lost in outer space. Yes or no?

[edited by: Marcia at 1:22 am (utc) on Jan. 13, 2007]