Related:url

I'm concerned about mine

[grandpa]

When I click the Similar pages link for my own site I get nothing returned, or more specifically, I get:

Your search - related:www.mydomain.com/ - did not match any documents.

This seems to have been an on again/off again situation for a few months now. Today I modified the search just a little, adding a space before the url (Related: url) and lo, there are my similar pages.

The questions..

1) Is this a problem?

2) Mine is the only site in the result set that has this 'problem'. Should I be concerned?

3) Is there anything I can do to correct this 'problem'?

As a little experiment, I made the same checks with a competitors site. They have about 30 related results with the default Related search, and about 2250 results if a space is added before the url.

I have no doubt this has been discussed, and I missed it while playing around in Foo and generally wasting my valuable time. Maybe a pointer to the appropriate thread. Thanks.

[abates]

if you put a space between related: and the domain, you're search for pages which contain the domain as text, not related pages. how's the results for link: and site:?

Alden

[suggy]

grandpa

I have the same problem, ever since this update. This query has worked fine for the past couple of years, now no documents match (just like yours). Concerned me at first, now I just think it's another google glitch. Or, is it evidence that things aren't done yet on the update side?!?!?

[grandpa]

My results for link: and site: are normal. There are different result sets based on a space before the domain name. Typically there are more results when a space is included.

think it's another google glitch. Or, is it evidence that things aren't done yet

I concur, another glitch. I've been loosely watching to see if anyone was reporting the same problem. Then when J2 hit and I started moving around I became concerned. After J3 I'm back at the top, so I'm back into believing its a glitch.

It is also evidence that things aren't done. Not with the current update, per se, but it's obvious that trying to run a top notch search is not without its problems, and that there will always be something else to take care of.