homepage disappeared

where'd it go

[jenkers]

mornin' all,
I've not seen this happen before and I've had a scan through the posts but couldn't find similar.
From yesterday afternoon the homepage from one of my sites just twinked out of existence on G.

If I do a www.mydomain.co.uk I get the standard 'Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.mydomain.co.uk'.

However if I then click on 'Find web pages from the site www.mydomain.co.uk' the pages from the site are listed including the homepage.

Has anyone seen anything similar - since Big Daddy started the number of pages indexed has dropped but lots of people have been compaining about this - I've figured that G must just be rebuilding / merging indexes and that in time those pages will come back. But this is a little worrying.
That said, I do have a 301 redirect from www.mydomain.co.uk to www.mydomain.co.uk/subfolder. Is it possible that Big Daddy has started to do something to resolves canonical issues / redirects etc and that this has had an effect.

Also, just as an aside for a short time yesterday there did appear to be a newer much cleaner index (certainly not a rollback to old results) but it disappeared.

[tedster]

I do have a 301 redirect from www.mydomain.co.uk to www.mydomain.co.uk/subfolder

That's the most likely reason. The 301 says "hey, there's nothing at this domain root -- it's all over here."

[Patrick Taylor]

... and it says it to everyone, so you won't see your own domain root.

[jenkers]

sure - sorry its early and I explained badly.

Even with the redirect if I search on:
www.mydomain.co.uk

or site:www.mydomain.co.uk

something should come up in the results - shouldn't it?

[Dayo_UK]

Yes it should show:-

www.mydomain.co.uk/subfolder

In the same way Amazon does.

Any difference between the results on a Big Daddy and a Non-Big Daddy DC?

[jenkers]

yes - non Big Daddy is as always and as I would have expected.

Looks like something has changed within BD (at least for this particular site) in the last 24 hours.