Google Limits Entries From the Same Domain

Did you know that Google limits the search results to two entries from the same domain for a given SERP?

I noticed this in the results for the Greatest Real Estate Agent In The World contest because otherwise there would be many more results from the realestatewebmasters.com website showing up.

It ocurred to me that this could be useful to see how different pages on your site are ranking. For example, if you do a search for the "Greatest Real Estate Agent In The World" on Google while limiting your results to realestatewebmasters.com then you can see that Morgan's contest announcement is #1 and then Jim Sparrow's #2, but there are many other relevant pages which don't show up in a standard Google search for these keywords.

The reason for this filter is so that one site doesn't dominate all the rankings for a keyword, which is probably a good idea, though it would be nice if there was an option to turn off this filter if you wanted to. If anyone knows how, please chime in.

This could also be helpful when evaluting the relevancy of your own site for a propspective keyword that you want to optimize for, to see which of your existing pages is considered to be most relevant.

For the official words from Google, here it is mentioned on Matt Cutt's blog.

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