Google showing 3 urls per site - 2 indented results

[Vimes]

Hi,

I’ve set my prefs to show 100 results and on some searches I’m seeing websites with two indents instead of the normal one.

Can any one replicate this?

Vimes

[adb64]

I tried using google.nl and I don't see results with 2 indents with 100 results per page instead of 10, but there are indeed more results with 1 indent.

[Jasp]

I've just seen this happen when searching for my site but it appeared once and i've never seen it since. (I was doing my normal search... didn't do num=100 or anything like that.)

I made a post about it... didn't see this post.

[edited by: Jasp at 1:59 pm (utc) on July 16, 2007]

Mod note... spliced Jasp's post onto end of this thread.

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 12:54 am (utc) on July 18, 2007]

[Jasp]

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I searched for my site the other day and to my great shock all of my subdomains appeared with two indented entries instead of the usual one indented entry per domain. I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this, and what does it mean. I've not seen it appear since.

To clarify... this is not a SiteLink.

The usual SERP output:

Subdomain 1 Main Page
-----> Subdomain 1 Sub Page

Subdomain 2 Main Page
-----> Subdomain 2 Sub Page

Other Site

Subdomain 3 Main Page
-----> Subdomain 3 Sub Page

The double listing output:

Subdomain 1 Main Page
-----> Subdomain 1 Page
-----> Another Subdomain 1 Page

Subdomain 2 Main Page
-----> Subdomain 2 Page
-----> Another Subdomain 2 Page

Other Site

Subdomain 3 Main Page
-----> Subdomain 3 Page
-----> Another Subdomain 3 Page

I've never seen this before.

[Robert Charlton]

Bumping this up. Jasp reports seeing this with subdomains. Not clear whether that's what Vimes was seeing.

Jasp... is this still happening, or was it a one or two day Google experiment?

[Marcia]

Only seeing one indented each, but with preferences set to 100, now 7 out of the top ten are Ebay subdomains. And only 2 out of those are relevant for the search.

[tedster]

I've run into this on a rare basis - an anomaly, I assume, rather than an intentional practice. I also, on occassion, see an indented result from a different domain -- now that's GOT to be an unintended bug.

[Tastatura]

I've run into this on a rare basis - an anomaly, I assume, rather than an intentional practice. I also, on occassion, see an indented result from a different domain -- now that's GOT to be an unintended bug.

But is this telling us something? (G's algos 'thoughts' about domain/ topic/ etc. relationship, somehow related info between the two,....or just plain old code bug)

[tedster]

One indented mistake I saw was this:

1. Domain with a quote from Matt Cutts
>>>> 2. The original page from Matt's blog

That lasted about 4 days.

[Vimes]

Sorry been away,

No what i was seeing and can't reproduce now was three separate / relevant pages from the same domain I didn't see this for sub-domains.
How ever some of the searches did pull a separate language page from the same domain if the search phrase was spelt the same way in English and the other language,

Looks like Tedster was correct I can’t reproduce it on any of the search now so an anomaly it is.

Vimes.

[Jasp]

Jasp... is this still happening, or was it a one or two day Google experiment?

It is not still happening. I saw it literally once, and could not reproduce it. I wish I had taken a screenshot!

I got all excited and thought maybe I was going to get SiteLinks... alas it was not to be.

[Vimes]

Hi,

Just seen another anomly on google.co.jp two indents again, but as soon as i refreshed the page they dissappeared.

jp ip address for me 66.249.89.99

Vimes.

[trakkerguy]

Funny, I've just noticed the opposite.

Searching with results set for 100 per page, I'm used to seeing one indented result for many domains.

Just today, I'm seeing only one result per domain. Probably a temporary thing...