Bizzare number of pages returned

"site:www.mysite.com" returns less hits than "site:www.mysite.com keyword"

[rescendent]

Who the what with the where now?

Why if a do a Google search:

site:www.mysite.com

do I get less pages returned than

site:www.mysite.com keyword

That just seeems odd...

(Only out by 2, its a small site first return: 55, second 57)

[diamondgrl]

There are all kinds of oddities like that if you probe the SERPs for any site carefully. Only knowing the Google listings algorithms would be abl to answer why.

[WebWalla]

Did it say about 55 or did you count all pages returned?

Were there any "supplementary" or "omitted" results and did you count those too?