Is Google turning off the Supplemental-index-query?

Johannes Beus
Matt McGee noticed that Google is, seemingly, step by step, turning off the queries that showed which pages of a project were in the supplemental-index. While, at the moment, it is still active on the datacenters that are responsible for Europe, it already looks bleak for a few American datacenters. Rand Fishkin confirmed this assumption and is pointing out that Matt Cutts, when he learned that such a query exists during SMX, announced a speedy shutdown thereof. With this, Google is closing down an extremely important possibility for Webmasters to detect and fix possible mistakes in the site- and linkstructure of their projects. We can only hope that this query – similar to the linkquery – will return in the Google-Webmaster-tools. If we take a realistic guess about the timing of this, while taking into consideration the speed with which the linkdisplay was implemented, we should be able to look forward to this feature sometime around 2015 ...

Johannes Beus

 Johannes Beus, Founder and CEO of SISTRIX, has been interested in the optimisation of websites for searchengines since 2001. In 2003 he started to regularly publish summaries of his evaluations and share his thoughts on the SEO-sector on one of the oldest German SEO-blogs.
Johannes Beus - on Fri (07/06/2007) at 12:13 PM

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