How accurate is the "site:xxxxxx.com" search?

I recently changed my domain/blog URL and went from over 100 indexed pages to 0. Now, the other day I thought I had like 65 but now its down to 6. Is the site: search function very accurate?

I'm new to the whole search engine stuff so I'm uncertain if there is anything I actually need to DO. Thank you.

 

I think Google Webmaster Tools does not exact completely.

 

According to our experience, this statistic changes are happened at the end of every month. Google tools is good

 

I think "site:xxxxxx.com" typed in Google search box is it. Thats what your talking about right? WMT is hardly accurate ever.

 

Site:xxx seem to produce different results from different PCs.

I also discovered a strange thing today - when I did
site:mysite.com
search I got 500 results, but when I did
site:mysite.com -somekeyword
I got 2000 of them.

This is just weird - how can adding a negative keyword increase the number of results?
Unless Google has a separate server for handling these, or something.

 

Since you have just changed your site url, have you pinged it lately?

@Manho, not sure what is going on with your Google but I use those parameters and they work just fine. Why don't you try this "somekeyword site:mysite.com" instead of "site:mysite.com -somekeyword"

 

Thanks for the feedback.

And yes I do ping with a web site every couple days or so.

 

Google tools are pretty good. Their engineers dedicate their time in these types of things.

Yugo,

 

site: search function is not very accurate
google indexed page numbers is always changing

if your site homepage indexed other page would be indexed in future
so you have no worry

 

Firstly, no tool would generate an accurate result for indexed pages even Google webmaster center. If you like, you could sign up accounts with all 4 top search engines: Google, Yahoo, Bing, ASK. In this way, you would more accurate information than all other tools.

Have a nice day,