August 23rd, 2006 by metapilot

Recording the search engine results changes as my new site moves onto a previously banned domain is providing a glimps at algorithm characteristics that I don’t get to witness on a daily basis. Not only does it highlight characteristics of the individual search engines, it points out differences in how they approaches a particular situation.Now that Google seems to have turned everything back on for the domian, I went from having nothing listed in the site:domian search to 1300 pages (all pages from the previous owner). It wasn’t exactly all in one swoop, though, over the last two days, I’ve been seeing different results at different data centers–sometimes there would be nothing for the site:domain search, sometimes three or four old pages, and then back again. Now with all these pages showing, it looks like they’ve gone ahead and opened the flood gates.

I’m sure it didn’t hurt that I posted a question on this week’s SEO Rock Stars guest speaker’s site, Stuntdubl SEO Consulting, regarding what to do with all the inbound links pointing to metapilot.com from websites that used to be cohorts of the previous site owner. There was some interesting discussion durring the show between Oilman, Web Guerilla, and Stuntdubl that you can listen to at WebmasterRadio.fm, if you’ve got a little time to kill.
Yahoo’s showing one more result than it did before and still hanging on to an old .pdf from the site. I wish it would just drop that. and MSN shows 36 results for the site:domain search.