What is the difference in site: operator results with and without /* added?

[raj1094]

HI

What is the difference in the result shown when we type in Google the below two query's.

site:example.com/*

and

site:example.com

[tedster]

It used to be that without the /* you got all results from the site, and with the /* you got only the main index - that is, you would see no results from the Supplemental Index.

But the Supplemental tags went away, and the single Supplemental index seems to have evolved into something more complex. Now even without the /* you don't always get all results, and with the /* I don't think you get all main index results, either.

Adding the /* was always an undocmented hack, and the way things have changed now I don't think you can count on very much about what it means.