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'site:www.mysite.com' differs if you use iGoogle (toolbar) vs standard Google search
Hi,
I have noticed that the results for the number of pages indexed via 'site:www.mysite.com' differs if you use iGoogle (toolbar) versus standard Google searches.
In my case the toolbar search yields about 355, whereas the Google.com search yields 1990 pages.
This appears to be a universal difference with virtually all URLs and the differences are very large with sites that have a large number of pages ( iGoogle only yields 10%). eg. www.nytimes.com; www.southaustralia.com; www.google.com - Try it?
iGoogle (toolbar) search for site:www.southaustralia.com =>
15,700 pages
Google search for site:www.southaustralia.com =>
111,000 pages
This is a real trap because I has been using the toolbar for searches and thought that my pages were being de-indexed and caused a panic. This difference has only appeared in the last month or so.
Why does this difference occur and does it apply to other searches?
NO it is not related to datacenters as I have tested this.
This may help to stop premature aging for those that depend on having large numbers of pages indexed on their sites.
Cheers
I have noticed that the results for the number of pages indexed via 'site:www.mysite.com' differs if you use iGoogle (toolbar) versus standard Google searches.
In my case the toolbar search yields about 355, whereas the Google.com search yields 1990 pages.
This appears to be a universal difference with virtually all URLs and the differences are very large with sites that have a large number of pages ( iGoogle only yields 10%). eg. www.nytimes.com; www.southaustralia.com; www.google.com - Try it?
iGoogle (toolbar) search for site:www.southaustralia.com =>
15,700 pages
Google search for site:www.southaustralia.com =>
111,000 pages
This is a real trap because I has been using the toolbar for searches and thought that my pages were being de-indexed and caused a panic. This difference has only appeared in the last month or so.
Why does this difference occur and does it apply to other searches?
NO it is not related to datacenters as I have tested this.
This may help to stop premature aging for those that depend on having large numbers of pages indexed on their sites.
Cheers
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I, like you, depend on a large volume of indexed pages that drive traffic on my main site, and in the UK it yields around 250,000 indexed pages (all unique as well, not machine built) - however running the same site:command in the US or Europe yields no more than 12,000 - specifically the higher pagerank pages.
I have tried playing aroud with datacenters as well, but cant replicate it using traditional methods. I have been able to reproduce the problem though using a great tool called searchmuffin.com that allows you to run a search from a load of US cities, and I can run the same query on my machine, and through searchmuffin and see two totally different snapshots of the index.
It appears from our findings that google is increasingly keeping multiple regional indexes of their primary - perhaps the other pages are in the "sandbox" to us in 'foreign' countries...
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