A recent
comment at SEOmoz.org from Matt Cutts says they might remove the SI tag sometime soon.
I guess Matt and Google were feeling that people are getting to "fixated" on their pages being in the SI. Well yes they are because these pages simply don't rank. They have absolutely no chance against pages outside of the SI. If they felt "fixation" was an issue why not take away
PR number from the toolbar to that is so inaccurate. I know that will help me spend less time explaining what "truly" means.
Matt goes on to say:
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"Over time, the supplemental results are less and less supplemental and more and more likely to show up for any given query. As I mentioned at SMX Seattle, my personal preference would be to drop the "Supplemental Result" tag altogether because those results are 1) getting fresher and fresher, and 2) starting to show up more and more often for regular web searches. Especially as the supplemental results get more fresh,"
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More fresh? What the heck is that?
Micheal Martinez goes on to say this about "freshness":
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Matt Cutts confirmed at SMX Advanced 2007 that Supplemental Results pages are not parsed the same way as pages in the Main Web Index. So if Google only "does away" with the "Supplemental Results" label, they will be playing a game of smoke and mirrors with both users and Webmasters.
Either Google should start fully parsing Supplemental Results pages so that they have a fair chance of ranking in search results, or they should keep the label so that Webmasters can see they still need to get more inbound links to move those pages into the Main Web Index.
Google should not under any circumstances pretend to be combining the two indexes. Either Supplemental Results go away completely or they stay. This is not a "freshness" issue. This is a "Google will not fully parse and index Supplemental Pages" issue.
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So what does everyone think about this?
Here are some more source postings on the subject:
Update: Google is removing the supplemental query » Small Business SEM
Is Google Gearing Up To Drop The Supplemental Result Label?