One week ago folks from SEOmoz noticed that query people used in order to find out their pages in Google Supplemental Index doesn’t work. Yippee, now I know why this option didn’t seem to work in my favorite SEO for Firefox extension. And what our favorite IT engineer says about that issue…

I believe it’s good to remove this query because I don’t want people to get fixated on Supplemental Results and focus on them to the exclusion of other aspects of SEO. We saw that happen with the toolbar PageRank bar and ended up slowing the update rate on the visible toolbar PageRank to every 3-4 months so that people didn’t spend too much of their time concentrating on PageRank and less on other parts of good SEO.

Yes, Matt, I totally agree with you, it’s good to remove this query. I cannot check my current PR ranks, so I count links and estimate other factors. I have been working on Supplementals in similar way, since they are in. And yes, I have been using this query, but not for my pages - rather in order to check skills of my SEO competitors

Google makes waves for folks interested in Search Engine Optimization. That’s great, tough cookies don’t need to know current PageRank, as well as they don’t need any special queries for listening pages from lovely Supplemental Index. Spammers keep doing well.