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After some very strange search results were mentioned here:
[webmasterworld.com...] (Apple #1 for "google glossary")
I've been following the SERPs for the last 10 days.
Even though highly visible queries like "www", "yahoo site:yahoo.com",
and "today site:yahoo.com" stop returning erroneous results after
a few days there are still problems with the queries involving "site:".
For example, "ie site:microsoft.com" reurns link to google in #3.
Similarly "usa site:microsoft.com" returns www.dolphinusa.com as #6.
It cannot be fixed by adding -google or -dolphin to the queries,
which indicates that there are some discrepancies or patches in the
google internal search excution.
Some people may insert here a joke about Google and Microsoft
are secretly preparing for aquisition or that Microsoft plans to run
its search algorithm using creatures that are more intelligent than pigeons.
But aside from that and if we rule out the option that these were
the results of programming errors that were manually (temporarely)
patched then it must be that discrepancies between main index and
the "site:" and perhaps "link:" indices have some reasonable explanation.
In my opinion, it might be that Google has started to employ
a new algorithm in fresh crawl and it still didn't propagate
to the site: and link: and maybe even to the main inverted index.
And the changes in the new algorithm must be radical enough that
they decided it is not worth it to make it 100% compartible with
the old implementation of site: and link: which will be upgraded in
a few weeks anyway.
I might be wrong, if these things were happening for long time already.
But along with the latest changes in deepbot this sounds quite belivable.
So expect more algorithm changes with the next Google update.
