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June 6, 2007

Google UK Site Command Search Broken

Filed under: google, seoKevin Gibbons @ 4:34 pm

I’ve just done a site search for seoptimise.com on Google.co.uk, with “Pages from the UK” applied, and this has not listed any indexed pages. I’ve checked and all other websites are doing exactly the same thing, as shown by this screenshot of a site command search for google.com:

Google had a problem last year with .com homepage’s disappearing on Google UK but this time it’s every site: command search for all domain suffixes, seems very weird.

If you add a keyword to the site: search it does work though:

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4 Comments »

  1. I’ve been seeing the same thing recently. Cutts blogged about a porblem with .com / UK using the site operator a while ago

    http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/infrastructure-status-january-2007/

    Me thinks it’s a related problem

    Comment by Pete — June 7, 2007 @ 8:46 am

  2. Hey, I went to report this to people and someone else had already reported it. So folks at Google know about this; thanks for mentioning it!

    Comment by Matt Cutts — June 8, 2007 @ 11:36 pm

  3. Thanks for the update Matt.

    Comment by Kev — June 12, 2007 @ 7:00 am

  4. Hi Kev, I’m from Google groups and I’m just testing your comments. Let me know if you can see this.

    Comment by Rose DesRochers — June 14, 2007 @ 11:14 pm

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