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jag
12-16-2006, 09:42 AM
Hi experts,

Why is it so?

What will be the reason?

Google Directory - Regional > Asia > India > Business and Economy ...[/ (http://google.com/alpha/Top/Regional/Asia/India/Business_and_Economy/Financial_Services/)Accounting Firms (44 ) Banks and Banking Institutions (63 ) Delhi (17 ) Financial Institutions (4), Insurance (16 ) Investing (51 ) Kerala (3) ...
[color=#008000]google.com/alpha/Top/Regional/Asia/India/Business_and_Economy/Financial_Services/ - 24k - Supplemental Result - Cached (http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:mGXMUcjnJBQJ:google.com/alpha/Top/Regional/Asia/India/Business_and_Economy/Financial_Services/+skpcrossborder.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=38) - Similar pages (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-38,GGLG:en&q=related:google.com/alpha/Top/Regional/Asia/India/Business_and_Economy/Financial_Services/)

Am bit confused, on Supplemental Result strategies

I need help, thanks for the advice in advance

JohnW
12-17-2006, 12:02 AM
What was the exact search query that produced this?

jag
12-18-2006, 03:10 AM
Hi John

Here is the query

http://www.google.com/search?q=skpcrossborder.com&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-38,GGLG:en&start=30&sa=N

Thanks for replying

What was the exact search query that produced this?

glengara
12-18-2006, 05:26 AM
Seems a duplicate page, notice the "alpha" in the Url, the "real" page doesn't have that...

jag
12-18-2006, 05:30 AM
ok, by what way it is a duplicate page?

Seems a duplicate page, notice the "alpha" in the Url, the "real" page doesn't have that...

glengara
12-18-2006, 05:35 AM
It's a copy of the original page...

jag
12-18-2006, 06:02 AM
glengara, i know that its copy of the original page, but i want to know why G is displaying the result :)

It's a copy of the original page...

glengara
12-18-2006, 06:53 AM
Actually it's not a copy of the original page, the alpha parameter denotes a page with alphabetical results, as to why G is showing it I can only surmise someone is specifically linking to it rather than the default results by PR page....

JohnW
12-18-2006, 08:51 AM
When I query this I find many supplementals, looks like they are all from DMOZ clones, but not from Google directory or DMOZ itself.

The query at Google for
skpcrossborder.com site:google.com
does not produce supplementals for me.

PhilC
12-18-2006, 09:42 PM
I can't see a Google result either, but when we had the search that showed only supplemental results, I saw that Google had hundreds of thousands of pages in Supplemental, so it doesn't surprise me that you found one in the serps.

jag
12-19-2006, 05:34 AM
Hi John

If u click in the above link, you can notice

Thanks for you help

glengara
12-19-2006, 06:31 AM
Seems to be a bit of a movable feast, on a "www.skpcrossborder.com" search I get both versions:

www.google.com/Top/Regional/Asia/India/Business_and_Economy/Financial_Services/ - 38k

www.google.com/alpha/Top/Regional/Asia/India/Business_and_Economy/Financial_Services/ - 24k -

Today the alpha page is not supplemental yesterday it was, only difference is that yesterday the alpha page appeared in "Results 21 - 24 of about 331" whereas today I had to click "repeat search" to find it.

jag
12-19-2006, 07:29 AM
Thanks glengara

I have two questions

Why is this change? and

and exactly what is alpha page ?

Thanks in advance

glengara
12-19-2006, 07:57 AM
Alpha = results in alphabetical order.

No idea why it changed, but I'll be keeping an eye on whether supplemental pages in initial results remain so in the "repeat search" results...

jag
12-20-2006, 02:46 AM
can any one help me to know "why is the change?" Please

Thanks in advance

Jag