When you think about it, the mind boggles about just how complex their calculations must be - I’d assume the aggregate processing power required to index pages would increase exponentially (or probably more likely as a power relationship) vs number of pages in existence. Moore’s law can’t keep up with that.. so I’m guessing land around their server farms would be a good buy, either that or they think of better ways to use their existing infrastructure - I’m certain the supps is probably one of those ways.

By the way - did you see my response to your great suggestions about the wordpress category pages vs real pages supp problem?

http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Indexing/browse_thread/thread/d30f62b048fae6f4

Made a bit of a hack to hopefully reduce the ‘relevance’ of the cat pages, without removing their utility as a way of keeping all pages within a few clicks from the index page.

Cheers,

M

After all, people would not be too happy if that little timer at the top of the search page said Results 1 - 10 of about 485,480,000,000 for ___. (8.19 minutes)

Before we had people worrying about supplemental we had everyone complaining they couldn’t get the site indexed. At least now they index it pretty fast, but it probably won’t rank for anything, since it will be mostly supplemental.

I see this as a possible chink in the armor that is the Google monopoly. It was techno-web-geeks that deemed Google the best search engine a long time ago. As new sites get indexed fast, but dumped in the supplemental results which send them 3 visitors a year, the other search engines (and I use that term loosely) if they were smart would jump on that and prioritize freshness. The webmaster’s would see most of their traffic is coming from Yahoo and MSN [forget Ask until they get at least 2 more modems and crawl more than once every 2 years] and start pushing them as the real deal.

The first search engine that doesn’t return the same old wiki, ebay, amazon, about, or answers.com for every query but digs deeper may be the next Google.

Millions of links to a page means a page is more popular, which also means almost everybody knows about it, otherwise they wouldn’t be SEARCHING. The real diamonds are buried away in a compressed database that’s running on an Atari 400 labeled supplemental somewhere in Googleland.

Parsing pages differently could mean a lot of interesting things. Maybe it was even said on accident, hmmm :-). Or maybe we’re just reading too much into Matt’s words