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Originally Posted by Cricket
That is exactly how I interpreted the announcement.
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The only thing they have done is to remove the ability for us webmasters to see at a glance whether or not a page has enough PageRank to be in the main index. This does nothing whatsoever to improve anything, period. Normal searchers never had a clue what supps were to begin with.
As near as I can tell, this only serves the purpose of lowering the amount of information that Google gives us to work with. Supplementals do not pass PageRank, or pass it in such negligible amounts that it's not worth worrying about. Lack of PageRank is what causes pages to go supp to begin with. By removing the label it prevents webmasters from knowing which pages/sites out there would be more beneficial to focus on getting links from.
Personally I see it as a sign of Google's increasing paranoia about people being able to intentionally rank better, and them again worrying about crap that they really don't need to be worrying about at this point. The real spammers don't give a damn about looking for individual pages to target, they just hit with the shotgun approach.
There are tons of pages of nothing but spam filling the main index right now:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:...e=off&filter=0
That's one site with over 400,000 pages of nothing but spam. The more pages like this there are, the more honest pages are going to get pushed into the supps. I guess one reason G might be doing this is so that people can no longer easily gauge how bad of a job they are doing.
-Michael