Is the site: command accurate in google search

results returned from a site: command

[agraddy]

Just a quick question here. I know that using the link: command at Google does not return all of the inbound links. After tracking one of my sites, I was wondering about the site: command. It seems that I had more pages indexed in January than what is being returned right now. So basically my question boils down to - Is the site: command accurate at Google?

[g1smd]

I have always found the site: command to be accurate. You need to make three searches to see what is happening:

site:domain.com --> lists www and non-www pages
site:www.domain.com --> lists only www pages
site:domain.com -inurl:www --> lists only non-www pages

Some Google datacentres are currently reporting only about 10 to 20% of the page numbers that the others are. This may be down to a "work in progress", as they are tinkering at the moment.

[agraddy]

Thanks for the help. I have all of the site directed to go to www using htaccess so that wasn't the problem. I think it was just a data center update or something. I checked again the next day, and I had lost even more pages from the index making me a little nervous, but now today the index is listing twice (almost three times as many files) as it had yesterday.

I should probably just ignore google and do my thing. Isn't that what Brett recommends in his 26 steps. Submit and forget.

Oh well, thanks again for the help.