Site Command Limited To 30 Results? Google Says A Temporary Domain Clustering Bug

Over the past day or so, we’ve been seeing reports that some of us can replicate ourselves, where the site command (i.e., site:www.domain.com) in Google was limited to only showing 30 results.

The rumors were that with the recent domain clustering change Google pushed out this week has severely impacted the site command. Those rumors are true.

Google’s Matt Cutts told us that this is a “temporary side effect of the domain clustering change,” they pushed out yesterday. Matt, the head of Google’s search spam said, “we expect that site: will be back to showing lots of results by sometime next week.”

Here is a screen shot of what a site command might look like for a large site like amazon.com:

As you can see, this can be pretty scary for some webmasters.

Truth is, as expected, it is an unintended side effect of the domain name clustering change.

Both Justin Briggs and Ben Milleare posted more about the topic.

As we said, this will likely be resolved by next week, so no need to panic.

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