from cached to indexed?

how long does it usually take from once google cache your page to get it into their index?

For my site...google is only showing 200 pages while msn has 600. My sites gets cached very frequently however

 

By "cached" you mean crawled?

 

well no, i check most of my pages and they have a cache date by google but are not showing up in the index by google

 

They're in the index, they're just not ranking well for the keywords you searching for

 

when i do a site:www.site.com, google only shows 200 results while msn and yahoo have significantly more. Is this similiar to how they show backlinks?

 

as far as i know, if the page is cached then it's in google's index. when they export that info to their datacenters is another thing. i've noticed it going from cached to being in the list of indexed pages within a few days or a couple of weeks. also, keep in mind that google doesn't always show everything they have in their internal database.

 

May be the safest way to tell is about two months and id you are lucky enough in month's time it will all be saved on their datacenter. But as of now all is unstable as they are always changing their algorithm