Change in the "broken" site: command?

Spirits soar; metaphors are mixed

[CherryHintonBlue]

I don't know if this is a light at the end of the tunnel or just a reflection from a red herring, but this morning the "site:" command has started to return the home page on one of my June 27 trashed sites. Just one. The site hasn't recovered in the SERPs, but, well, it's a start, isn't it? Not that I'm clutching at straws or anything.

My initial thought was that they've fixed the broken "site:" command, but this is not the case, as I can see from other affected sites.

Background: I should add that I have a number of trashed sites, and a number which were unaffected by June 27. All are professional, business information sites with decent traffic. All have the same structure and there is no connection between those which were hit and those which weren't. Finding a distinguishing feature of the affected sites has been a priority task for us these past six weeks, but there does not appear to be one. Until today, all the trashed sites have shown the classic broken "site:" command, and all the unaffected ones have returned a more conventional "site:" command result.

[icedowl]

For me the site command is broken beyond belief. I'm seeing 808 supplemental results before I see the start of the non-supplemental results for one of my sites. Backwards to say the least.

[steveb]

It's a bad development that previously you could see a site with a weird problem, that is, pages pegged at the bottom or an index page not first, but the new method just hides the problems.

[g1smd]

You need ALL of these searches to get a true picture as to what is happening:

site:domain.com
site:domain.com inurl:www
site:domain.com -inurl:www
site:www.domain.com
site:www.domain.com inurl:www
site:www.domain.com -inurl:www

yes, even the searches that seem to make no sense.

[rden17]

many data centers are showing all my de-indexed pages as indexed again. give this a few more days and I think there will be a lot more missing pages starting to turn up. I have noticed a lot of my pages returning and showing up in the SERPS again. Let's hope this sticks!

[icedowl]

Interesting. Since I posted earlier they've flipped it to the expected order. Now they just need to get rid of the supplementals.

[rden17]

yeah, although a lot of missing pages are now showing up, they are listed as supplemental. At least my traffic has started to improve some.

[leadegroot]

my gosh, they may finally have the site: command working! wow!