"allintitle:" - predicts future rankings?

true or false

[prairie]

I've noticed some people are claiming that searching Google with allintitle for their keywords provides a sign of the natural rankings to come, post PR-update/post-sandbox, or whatever.

Is this known to be true? ... I was of the mind that it was just a basic text search restricted to page titles.

[randle]

You are correct, it is for searching sites with specific titles.

It does not predict anything.

[graywolf]

Pick some generic terms (not your own) and compare the results of the standard searches against allinitle, allinanchor, allintext, and allinurl.

Then try it for terms you think are suffering from the "lag time" penalty.

If you don't see what I am talking about sticky me.

[prairie]

From a few experiments, allinitle, allinanchor, allintext, and allinurl show newer results and don't filter our cloaking/doorway pages.

[needinfo]

Before September 23rd we ranked very well for regular searches for aproximately 3 years now our sites all rank very well for allintitle, allinurl, allintext & allinanchor but don't rank quite so well for regular searches. I really cannot understand why, we have kept the same link campaign running the same way for the past 1 year and we have made no changes to the pages etc..