Supplemental Result is a URL residing in Google's supplemental index, a secondary database containing pages of less importance, as measured primarily by Google's PageRank algorithm.
The importance of a page is measured by the number and quality of links pointing at it. The degree to which Google trusts a site's inbound links also influences the importance of a page. If Google detects paid links, for example, it will devalue the links or nullify them completely so that PageRank will not pass to the target page.
A supplemental page will still rank in search results, but only if there are not enough pages in the main index that are returned within the search.
Google used to place a "Supplemental Result" label at the bottom of a search result to indicate that it is in the supplemental index; however in July 2007 they discontinued this practice and it is no longer possible to tell whether a result is in the supplemental index or the main one. .
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