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Hi Jess, That doesn't seem to be my exact issue.  I was just wondering about an overall, permanent algo change affecting 'site:' search. Though we have not received any GWT notices, I'm trying to figure out if Google may be penalizing / lowering the ranking order / omitting ... for whatever reason... some pages we've previously targeted with link building.  Because when I do a site: search, I'd expect to see the more authoritative pages of a website closer to the top of the first page of SERPS. Russ

From a navigation point of view, being able to erase the end of a url and end up at a parent is excelent for UX. As is not having to recall a file type (the .htm) It wouldn't thus entirely surpise me if google favoured such a structure. I expect however, google infurs such relationships from your onsite interlinking more. - Breadcumbs for example would probably have more effect. (I do belive there is a markup for them in webmaster tools, or at least was one being beta'd recently) I personaly wouldn't do such a change less there were other issues being fixed at the same time. (Improving UX would count). Make sure of course to do you 301's and change the internal links if you do.

Hi Scott, I wanted to let you and the rest of the people on this thread know that we now can track local rankings! Check out our post at http://moz.com/blog/local-rankings-in-moz-analytics.

ANAL, but from my understanding of the US laws (LinkedIn vs. hiQ Labs) and having worked on SerpAPI.com, if the data is public, it's in your rights to scrape it.

That's a good point.

Oh, that's great, Scott. Linda is terrific. Please, say hi to her from Miriam. Good luck! Miriam