No. of Pages indexed vs. No. of search results for widgets

number discrepancy

[Sobriquet]

I was just wondering about an observation.

for example: site:wwwsite.abc shows 900 results. ( as far as i understand, the number 900 is the total pages indexed to show in search results by google.

now, assumingly i wish to search for blue widgets in www.site.abc , I use

blue widgets site:www.site.abc

in the search

i am surprised the see 1400 results for that.

How come the search results for one site for a particular search term be greater than the total search results for that site?

Any observations or comments?

[LittleEvilBunny]

me thinks that when you do site:example.com it spits out a lot of supplementals which are not shown in the first case.

[tedster]

But, if I understand correctly, that's the reverse of what Sobriquet is saying. Here's the situation:

[site:www.example.com] 900 results
[blue widgets site:www.example.com] 1400 results

1. We've got "www" in both cases - canonical issues are not a likely factor
2. If the site: operator is tapping supplementals, it should be in both cases

Very peculiar. But the big factor I see is that in the second case, we go past the 1,000 results barrier. Page count numbers get very weird above that threshold.

[Sobriquet]

1. We've got "www" in both cases - canonical issues are not a likely factor

canonical issue was taken care by rewriting all non www to www in htaccess file a few months ago . could that have a play in this?

is anyone else also seeing this in their websites?

i just noticed that for one of my ( non-top-page ) keyword, the request are crossing 1900 .. ( total pages are still 900 )