In the past, it was relatively easy to get a website indexed in Google. Now, we see a much more selective Google than the one we’re used to. Google has become extremely touchy about which pages they are willing to add to their index, and almost any page can end up in the “Supplemental Index” if the webmaster isn’t careful.

This affects long tail search, and I’m not sure how a change in this manner will help Google. Most blog posts target the “long tail” of search, and the pages generally won’t command a great deal of incoming links. Google seems to be saying that only certain pages are now “worth” of inclusion into their “main index”. Does this mean webmasters should make less pages? Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.

In the past, Google always stated their goal was to index all of the world’s information. It seems they’re starting to qualify that statement a bit in recent years. They’ll index all of the world’s information, as long as they deem it “important” enough.

I don’t care for trends that make search engines more exclusive. I’d rather they included everything, and were smart enough to decipher meaning.

Do you think Google should exclude certain pages from their index?