19th November 2007

Search results in search results

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I was under the impression that Google didn’t want a websites own search results to be crawled and listed in Google. I got this notion from both a Matt Cutts post and the official Google webmaster help group post.

Assuming this is still the case, can anyone tell me why Cooks.com has 112,000 search results indexed by Google? I wouldn’t have noticed this if they hadn’t been ranking for just about every recipe I’ve been searching for lately. The behavior is proliferated by the Recent Searches box in the left navigation column of the site.

I took the Google placebo and submitted a spam report, probably a waste of my 20 seconds.

Updated:12/5/07

Truly a waste of my time, weeks later and they still exist, here’s something for the Googlebot to suck on. Obviously some sites are more equal than others.

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  1. 1 MyAvatars 0.2 On November 19th, 2007, SEO Buzz Box said:

    Yes indeed, hard to argue that when they are also ranking for things like “hot wings” currently #5 in google.

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