"Very Similar" not being shown any more?

[Marcia]

I've checked U.S., UK and Au Google, and all the results are coming up, unfiltered for very similar pages. This is the message I'm looking for

"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some
entries very similar to the 4 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results
included."

But it isn't coming up. I'm using this to track down pages on sites that have replicated titles or meta descriptions - or identical top of page elements - but it seems to be gone.

Is it permanent? Is anyone else still seeing it?

[tedster]

I just saw it on a site: search - similar situation as in the past, the pages behind the link are all missing a meta description.

[Marcia]

>pages behind the link are all missing a meta description

What I was concerned about is that there was no longer any link with pages behind it; it was gone. Then I thought it was a false alarm, but right now it seems to be happening again, depending on how the search is done.

[g1smd]

I have seen that a few times, but haven't thought about any commonality as yet.

[Marcia]

They are definitely tinkering with this. As one example, a site of over 1.5K pages shows 948 pages, and if you click to see more results (whih doesn't always turn up), you get 949 out of 949 pages. One more. Actually, about 95% + of that site was being hidden as very similar before this phenomenon started to happen, in time to know what to fix.

You can see an approximation of which pages are similar by using searches on a more granular level, but not just with the site: operator.