Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
These scammer sites of course all showed up in Google's "Supplemental Results" when we did a search:
allinurl:example.com
This tells you who has links to your site. you can also use link:example.com as well.
Anyway, we found the sites, and were getting ready to submit them to Google's automated Urgrnt URL Removal Tool, when damn if that day 2 weeks ago Google stopped showing the Supplemental Results.
I know the scum bags are in there, I just need to see them so I can get these morons shut down.
Anyone know of a way top force Google to display the crappy reults, so I can shut them down?
How ironic that for 2 years Google has been displaying crap. Then when you want to see crap, they won't show it to you.
Doooooooooooooooo!
Pages that went 404, and sites that went domain expired, before 2005 June no longer show up in the search results. Those Supplemental Results have been completely cleaned out.
New Supplemental Results have appeared for any pages that have changed their status or their content at any time since 2005 June.
For pages that are gone (404), or domain expired, the Supplemental Result has a cache of the final version that was online. For pages that have been updated, the Supplemental Result shows the previous content in the snippet, and the normal result shows current content in the snippet. In both cases the cache is usually only a few days or weeks old.
Google used to hold on to old data for almost three years. It looks like that maybe they only hold on to it for 9 to 12 months now.
They do this so that you can still find sites that recently went offline. They may also use the data to defeat domain-hopping spammers who put the same content up on a new domain when the old one is found and penalised.
For surfers trying to find fast vanishing information the Supplemental index can hold very useful data. For webmasters trying to get old data off the screen, it is often a pain in the neck. At least Google seems to have seen some sense in cutting back the timescale that they hold on to thaty data for.
When the heck will Google wisen up and realize those sites are totally trashing their index!
I prefer to use MSN now since they have not yet been comprimised by scammers. Furthermore, Google refuses to act to stop these guys even after you send them spam complaints.