When performing a site:www.example.com I take this to be all pages indexed from www.example.com. With site:www.example.com example I would expect to receive a listing of pages within www.example.com with the keywords example in them. Am I missing something? I've seen two example sites where the latter returns many many more results than the simple site:www.example.com. How could this be... I must be wrong.
supplemental results you say? Hey, the supplemental results are a new experimental feature to augment the results for obscure queries. This is a new technology that can return more results for queries that for example have a small number of results. So it might not affect the results for a popular search, but for a researcher doing a more specific query, it can improve the recall of the results. The supplemental collection of pages has been collected from the web just like the 3.3 billion pages in Google's main index. I guess that means they're in the db just not in results. I wish none of these funny looking php pages were indexed, just going to have to wait it out. Not sure why this is a website review lol. But saw it coming a mile away.