Anomaly in the number of a site's pages indexed

Longer length negative words produce many more pages than shorter words

[alpine]

Interesting to note:

site:www.yahoo.com -zxcvbnm = approx 400,000 pages
site:www.yahoo.com -zxcvbnmm = approx 11,000,000 pages

Maybe due to the estimation process?

[WebGuerrilla]

Are you sure you didn't make some type of typo?

It shows the same for me. And the numbers you got back are way out of wack. I got 29,500 for both searches.

[alpine]

I tried it last night many times, with different "words", and it exhibited the same issue.

But it's quirky.

Right now, it does this, repeatable, over and over.

-sdfg site:yahoo.com 453,000
-sdfgh site:yahoo.com 5,100,000
-sdfghj site:yahoo.com 9,940,000
-sdfghjk site:yahoo.com 10,100,000
-sdfghjkl site:yahoo.com 7,530,000

[TheDave]

Try a more random string. People do tend to type across the keyboard just like you have when they want a random string, so that string you are typing is actually indexed:

site:yahoo.com -qpjd 9,990,000
site:yahoo.com -qpjdm 10,900,000
site:yahoo.com -qpjdmz 10,900,000

Well, thats just my thoughts on it