Google site: operator showing weird results

Discussion in 'Google' started by myvoice, Apr 6, 2007.

  1. #1
    Results 1 - 10 of about 7
    Results 1 - 10 of about 9..

    In the above two searches using the site: operator,

    I have seen the Google is only counting the urls in the main index and not considering the supplemental results as a count.

    9 out of the 10 results are not supplemental so counted, while the 10th one is supplemental.
    So its giving as
    Results 1 - 10 of about 9.


    In another search using the site operator,
    Results 1 - 3 of about 3 and then clicking on Omitted results, the results show as Results 1 - 10 of about 2290.

    Anyone else observed this?
     
    myvoice, Apr 6, 2007 IP
  2. ugyen

    ugyen Peon

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    #2
    i did checked my blogs yesterday and saw it, it showed only 1-3 when it was showing 1-145 before !! may be change in google date !!
     
    ugyen, Apr 6, 2007 IP
  3. mvandemar

    mvandemar Notable Member

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    #3
    Yes, it's been going on for over a week now:

    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=282470


    <offtopic alert>
    ugyen, I gotta ask...

    That's just a small sampling from today... what is with all of the exclaiming? Seriously, have you considered decaf? I mean, you do know what those quotation marks mean, right?
    </offtopic alert>

    -Michael
     
    mvandemar, Apr 6, 2007 IP
  4. ugyen

    ugyen Peon

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    am used to this exclamation mark. check my blogs and you will find in most of the post : world blog collection
     
    ugyen, Apr 6, 2007 IP
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    dizzy Google again
     
    wacamoi, Apr 7, 2007 IP
  6. myvoice

    myvoice Peon

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    I believe Google is trying to make it easy to find out the number of results of site: search in the main index for smaller sites, but results like the

    results 1-3 of about 3 and then you click on the omitted results you get the results as 1-10 of about 2290,

    suggests that Google is working on a similar idea on the larger sites as well. I do not have evidence to support this, and the idea is completely theoritical.

    What I have also seen is the time taken to show the total number of results is very less.

    I have also observed that the 2nd level pages of a site are shown on top of the third level pages even if third level pages have the new cache date.

    There is this one site of mine for which the third level page which do not have a supplemental tag, shows below the 2nd level page after clicking on the omitted results but does not show in the initial site: search.
     
    myvoice, Apr 7, 2007 IP
  7. ugyen

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    what is more like than the giant google.:) :)
     
    ugyen, Apr 7, 2007 IP