Google Supplemental Index Status

Much talk has been made about the Supplemental Index … is it getting revamped? Is Google doing away with it? What? Matt Cutts posted over at SEOmoz and his point was that there was “too much” talk about the Supp Index, just as years ago there was too much talk about the PageRank bar, so Google decided to only show an update to the public once every three months.

I ask, has that stopped the talk? No. It has just caused massive confusion. Now Supplemental Pages cannot be found consistently with a query.

Why can’t Google just take out the query, put it into Webmaster Central and call it good? Why take this way from webmasters? We need to know which pages are in the Supplemental Index so we know if the site needs fixing or not. We call know that Supplemental Indexing is only caused when there is a problem with the page.

I just tried it again, and the hack: site:domain.com *** -view does not work. However, this hack that was discussed over at Webmaster World works:

site:domain.com/&

Not sure how long this hack will last. It seems that hacks come and go. I hope Google lets this one stay.