tedster - 5:09 am on May 29, 2007 (gmt 0)

I think you may be seeing a "formula" that applies only to how the site: report is created. I just checked a big site that I worked with in the past.

site:example.com
1,000 results (the limit for any search)
only #1000 is supplemental
total results about 300,000

site:example.com/directory-a
1,000 results
only #1000 is supplemental
total results about 19,000

site:example.com/directory-b
1,000 results
only #1000 is supplemental
total results about 13,000

See what I mean? The first set of results seems to say they've only got 999 results in the main index. But the results in the second and third searches alone seem to indicate 1998 main index results just from those two directories. If I do site: searches for all their directories and add up the number of non-supplementals, it becomes very large.