Changes to filter=0 results?

Is the filter for more than dupe pages?

[Tallis Abbey]

Hi there.

When I was looking at my search results last year, adding '&filter=0' to the end of a search query simply appeared to remove a duplication filter. So, if a number of relevant pages were returned from my site (say 6 of the first 10 results), it stripped out all but one result (with a sub-result beneath it). This seemed very sensible.

Now however, my product info pages have all disappeared from the first pages results for my keywords. But if I add filter=0, my product detail pages pop back up to the top of the first page.

So, the filter doesn't seem to be just trimming the number of results displayed from my site anymore, but downgrading ALL the results from that URL.

So does what is the filter doing nowadays, above simply stripping out duplicate results from any one site?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[ciml]

Could one of the URLs above yours have similar content to yours?

You can search Google with various values of n in &num=n to find which it is.

[Clint]

Tallis, are you sure it's &filter=0 that you're using? I try that and get no results at all regardless of search.

[ciml]

&filter=0 is appended to the Google results page URL.

This is equivalent to clicking "repeat the search with the omitted results included" at the end of the last page of standard results.

[Clint]

Thank you. :)

[lammert]

First of all welcome to WebmasterWorld Tallis Abbey!

I am seeing this behaviour of &filter=0 for a long time. When I search the internet for my personal name, there are many results, but my personal weblog is completely filtered out. When I use &filter=0 it is on a decent place.

So it does more than filtering out duplicate pages. It filters all pages which Google thinks are not relevant to the search. Probably they think my weblog is not relevant to me ;)