Dupe filter weirdness?

[bakedjake]

I've noticed some weirdness with the dupe filter lately. Specifically, queries of the type "site:www.domain.com www.domain.com" that used to return all pages on the site are starting to return 3-5 pages, with the all-famous "some of your search results have been omitted..." message.

I've also noticed weirdness in doing normal searches, but I haven't been able to nail down a pattern yet.

Anyone else noticing strange behavior in the dupe filter?

[Brett_Tabke]

I've looked at this post and studied it for quite awhile Jake and (sorry to say) I'm not sure what you are seeing there.

That is always (site:xyz.com xyz.com) an interesting search.

Anyone?

[jimpoo]

Me too, 90% of the links listed on the SERPS of 'site:www.mysite.com' are indicated as 'Similar pages', no descriptions and catched.

While 100% of the SERPS for one of my website on search 'site:www.mysite.com' are indicated as 'Supplemental Result'.

Any idea?

[soapystar]

duplicate filter?......eh?...when did they bring this in?....i tried one famous search of mine..yep...6 of the top ten sites have word for word..layout for layout..template for template identical content.....oh..hang on a second..they have different colour backgrounds...not identical after all...sorry to mention it....carry on without me........

[power_iq]

well, most of titles and descriptions was gone with site:xyz.tld are back now for me since two days. No changes in serps.

Best regards, Tom

[mcavic]

3-5 pages, with the all-famous "some of your search results have been omitted..."

Yes, if the pages on your site are very similar to each other, it'll do that. For example, I have a site with 8 pages and a large amount of identical text on each page, and Google only returns 2 pages at a time.

It could be that the similar content filter has become more sensitive.