I am seeing 2-3 x the number of results Google is supplying, results that used to give 600,000 now showing 1.6 mil. Athough the homepage is still says 8 billion pages. Anyone else noticed this ?
Let's do site: on all the domains and add them up so we can predict the new total indexed number of pages. A domain can only be N characters and there's only X tld's so we can loop through all possibilities and if it returns a whois record, Google API a site: command for the pagecount.
I am seeing similar things with the site command showing 2 to 3 x the number of pages a site has in google. The laughable thing about it is that trying it on some of my own sites brings back numbers 2 to 3 x the amount of pages the site actually has.
My guess is 9.6B (because that's what I see with this search): [search=google]-sfsfsfsdfs2fdf[/search]
The point is that many noticed that number of indexed pages (reported) exceeds the real number of pages of a site. I did not experience that though
Yup Google's site: command is showing way more than pages than I really have in it's index. To be honest, I've stopped using inurl: site: and link: on Google because it doesn't give me accurate results. I just monitor my rankings and continue with my link building.