Why do api results differ so much from the web results?

Discussion in 'Google API' started by frankm, Jul 31, 2005.

  1. #1
    hi all,

    I'm fooling around with the google api - creating some handy monitoring tools for the sites I promote - and came across some weird values and I hope one of you can help me better understand the results.

    I'm interested in the pages-indexed-by-google number, so I run a query like:
    
    site:www.domdomdom.com www.domdomdom.com
    or
    site:www.domdomdom.com domdomdom
    
    Code (markup):
    but when I compare these results with what google.com says I get this:

    site1:
    api: 1000
    google.com: 580.000

    site2:
    api: 2500
    google.com: 20.000

    (sites have about the same age - and both are spidered very hard)

    what does die site:* query tells me? Is the number of results useful? It looks very strange.

    anyone else seeing these weird results?
     
    frankm, Jul 31, 2005 IP