Sub Domains and Search Engines

Sub Domain, meta, content, ranking, results

[chiesa]

I am interested in a comment from someone who said that usually engines only list 50 pages per website. I wondered if it is possible to increase this number using sub domains. Also if i were to use different top level domains on the same web server would the engines recognise this and penalise me for it in any way.
If anyone have any experience with this any feed back would be greatly appreciated.

[vitaplease]

>>that usually engines only list 50 pages per website

chiesa,

where did you read that?

for example, try a Google search for: site:web.mit.edu -q (743,000)