pleeker - 11:10 pm on Dec 3, 2007 (gmt 0)

I believe the lower number of matching results for some queries is due to large numbers of pages being dropped from the index.

CitySearch used to show 13 million pages indexed; it now shows 829,000. This is one of several sites I've been watching for a couple months now just in the local space. If sites across the web are having pages dropped from the index, wouldn't it follow that various search queries will return fewer results?