Eric Enge Interviews Adam Lasnik about paid links, duplicate content and crufty pages (lots of code, little content)
Takeaways
I am sorry to say not a lot, it reinforces Google’s position not to really say a lot, though apparently there is no real penalty for duplicate content, and not to worry about how pagerank flows in your site.
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Google Broke My Christmas * (Supplemental Result Query Changes)
If you read the Google blog or the coverage on Search Engine Land, you might be rejoicing that supplemental results are no more
It has been described as lipstick on a pig and others have just offered tips on site indexing.
What Happened To My /* Search Query?
Before this change, one of the tools still available to SEO practitioners to give an indication of the depth of site indexing was to add /* to the end on a site: search query.
Thus you would use
site:andybeard.eu/ - this would return the total pages supposedly indexed site:andybeard.eu/* - this would return the