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Originally Posted by Mel
As a concrete example, I know of a jewelry site which has roughly 1/3 of their pages in the index in the supplemental index and the rest in the regular index.
What makes it confusing is that some of the most important and content filled pages (such as one which is one of the best pages in the web for information on diamonds) are in the supplmental index and some minor pages are in the regular index.
Now since Google only uses supplemental pages to augment results for "diffucult" queries and there are lots of diamond information pages on the web, it seems that this page might as well not be indexed as to be in the supplemental index.
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That actually tends to support what i was suggesting earlier - that Google uses something to identify pages on a site as central or more important and puts those in the primary directory, and other pages from that site go into the supplemental directory. This would be entirely consistent with their "democratic" view of their search engine. As an example, I have yet to see ALL of the pages on my site show up in a Google search - although over time which ones show up and which ones don't varies.
It would be different if there were some entire
sites dumped into the supplemental directory - that would be a contradiction of the "principle of democracy" that is Google's goal.