Google Directory in Supplemental Result Why?

[jag]

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]

What was the exact search query that produced this?

[jag]

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]

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

[jag]

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]

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

[jag]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Hi John

If u click in the above link, you can notice

Thanks for you help

[glengara]

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]

Thanks glengara

I have two questions

Why is this change? and

and exactly what is alpha page ?

Thanks in advance

[glengara]

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]

can any one help me to know "why is the change?" Please

Thanks in advance

Jag