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Url only listing, but only for certain keywords

         

oneguy

8:18 pm on Jan 7, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I just noticed something about a site I run.

It has an url only listing, but only for specific keywords.

There's no title, no cache, and no snippet.

But, that's only if searching for a particular 3 word term.

If I search for the same 3 word term as a plural, the site has a title, a cache, and a snippet.

Both are listed as www.example.com. (No www issues, I think)

Usually, an url only listing tells me that google knows the page is there, but hasn't really indexed it. Adding an s to the thrid term makes the page show up like normal.

This is a static page. It is the root page.

The site shows up first for the plural 3 word term where it has the title and snippet.

It shows up third for the singular term where there is no title, cache or snippet.

Anyone have any idea why?

These terms are not particularly sought after. I just thought this was odd.

oneguy

12:17 am on Jan 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

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14 million results for both without quotes.

With quotes, the singular is 14000 and the plural is 700.

With quotes in the plural, the title, cache and snippet is still first.

With quotes in the singular, the url only listing is nowhere to be found.

Nothing weird going on with this site, besides that it has been joe jobbed by stock scammers for a few months now. (It has nothing to do with that... just picked at random I imagine.) I doubt that has anything to do with it.

It has been scraped 600-700 times. But, would that affect one term and not another?

tedster

7:35 pm on Jan 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

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The snippet is definitely search term dependent - Google doesn't automatically show the same snippet on every search. I've never seen the entire listing go url-only though betwee two different searches, title vanishing and all.

Interesting observation, oneguy. My first thought is that this situation may be quite temporary - would appreciate follow-up reports.

oneguy

11:45 pm on Jan 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

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The only way I could make sense out of it is if different terms were hitting different datacenters.

Now, the site is gone for both singular an plural. The site is getting a major overhaul in the next week or so (which is why I was looking), so I'll probably never figure out what was going on.

tedster

12:28 am on Jan 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I just saw this effect blink in for a few hours - but then change back. Just temporary thing while Google moves data around, I think.