is it possible to tell google which country to index a page, for example, i have a .com hosted in Italy. at present all pages only get index in google.com, but the content on some pages are for UK only, so i want these pages indexed in google.co.uk only (not in google.com) and other pages are for spanish speakers in Spain, so i want these pages indexed in google.es (not google.com or google.co.uk) – how do i tell google where to list each page – i hope you dont get offended by a direct question ( ps i read your artical in dotnet mag – vey interesting ) (pss i thought i would add that to save you shouting at me)

nicholas

My wish for ‘07? Fix “Pages from the UK” (or wherever in the world). Please!

I’ve seen quite a few sites suddenly expunged from these results for apparently no good reason. One week they’re sitting pretty for one of their key search terms, then the next…. they’re gone!

It always seems to be for UK-hosted, registered and maintained sites that use a .com TLD. For marketing reasons, most UK companies like to use the .com if it’s available (easier to remember, seems more ‘authorative’ etc) and the SERPS show up plenty of .coms in the results, but some sites just suddenly vanish regardless of their quality and provenance. I mean literally from page 1 to nothing. The hosting is in the UK, on a UK IP address with UK-centric content for a largely UK market, with a presence established for a couple of years… no spam… webmaster tools reporting no penalties or problems…. just gone, without so much as a goodbye. Some of the pages carry on being indexed, but search for “site:www.domain.com” with “pages from the UK” and the homepage isn’t indexed. Very. Very. Odd.

If the anecdotal evidence of a 45/55% split in use of the ‘pages from…’ feature is anything like accurate, this could be a *major* commercial concern for a lot of people. From looking at the webmaster forums, it seems people have been reporting this to Google from all over the world for a good 4-5 months, and it’s a pretty serious flaw IMO.

Happy new year, by the way!

if you aren’t going to add all of these search categories with your primary ones, you could at least make them easier to access.

also, i love the “i’m feeling lucky button,” but i usually search from a toolbar. it would be great if i could enter, say, the letters “ifl” before my actual search if i wanted to be taken directly to the first result.

As soon as I was authorised with the G code on our site I was alarmed to see it showed 12000 supplemental results in G (our site has never had more than 1000 pgs, and none show as supps previously.)

Activating the PSS had caused G to ‘find’ and dump 11000 supplemental results into the main index.

Worse still, the PSS returns the dead and non-existent supp results ABOVE the correct pages, rendering the PSS useless for our site.

I had to remove it after three days, and revert to FDSE.

Please get these dead Supps from G.

Before I opened the PSS account site:ourdomain returned a true 600pg count, with no supps.

After I opened the PSS, site:ourdomain returned 12000pg count, mostly dead and never existed Supps.

We fixed cannonical problems months ago, and the cache on the Supps was over a year old.

Please get these dead Supps from G. They are ruining PSS.

I thought G’s PSS would be better than FDSE, but it is no where near as good.

You are seriously behind with regards to the operators you support. I go to Yahoo! and Msn solely to use the operators linkdomain: ip: not to mention linkextension: is really useful. There are also region: on Yahoo!/location: on Msn which can be useful for power searchers. And you still don’t show enough backlinks.

Plus your blogsearch doesn’t seem to support any of the normal operators, it’s quite frustrating.

Oh and lastly, your site:somewhere.com/directory doesn’t seem to work properly quite often.

One big improvement would simply for an option to search for the exact string. Most people won’t use operators such as the double quotes which specifies the exact phrase. Many won’t use operators. So a search option that says “filter results with exact phrase” would help to return results that are more directly relevant. Sure there’s 2.7 million pages that have san jose apartments, but there’s 311,000 that have that exact phrase, so you filter out a lot of the big sites that contaminate the results because of the pagerank and the limitations of Google’s algo.

I hate the way Google allows the same page to be listed more than once by recognising affiliate links to the same url as separate urls. I thought this was cured some time ago.

This morning for example I was searching for info on the Rich Jerk e-book, duly typed in Rich Jerk and the first 2 listings were clickbank links to the same page, only the hop=XXX being different.

Other than that Google is still way ahead of the other SEs