Google is cheating

site index includes outdated URLs as "Supplemental Result"

[sasha]

It appears to me that in order to keep up with competition Google has artificially increased the size of their index.

My site:domain.com shows outdated URLs from 3-4 months ago, included as "Supplemental Results". These old URLs had '?' '&' '=' parameters. Current page URLs only have '/'.

Also a whole bunch of 'no title no description' URLs. Combine all these 'fake' URLs together with real URLs and you get a doubling of indexed pages without any "real" new page additions.

If that is not cheating, then I do not know what is.

Why am I complaining? With all those 'fake' URLs in the index - the traffic has actually dropped. Why? Well, "Supplemental pages" never rank well. And if Google decides to serve up a supplemental page instead of a real one - the rankings go down. "No description, no title" pages don't rank at all, however they do compete with the actual URLs in the Google index just the same.