Google site: operator showing weird results

[myvoice]

Results 1 - 10 of about 7
Results 1 - 10 of about 9..

In the above two searches using the site: operator,

I have seen the Google is only counting the urls in the main index and not considering the supplemental results as a count.

9 out of the 10 results are not supplemental so counted, while the 10th one is supplemental.
So its giving as
Results 1 - 10 of about 9.

In another search using the site operator,
Results 1 - 3 of about 3 and then clicking on Omitted results, the results show as Results 1 - 10 of about 2290.

Anyone else observed this?

[myvoice]

I believe Google is trying to make it easy to find out the number of results of site: search in the main index for smaller sites, but results like the

results 1-3 of about 3 and then you click on the omitted results you get the results as 1-10 of about 2290,

suggests that Google is working on a similar idea on the larger sites as well. I do not have evidence to support this, and the idea is completely theoritical.

What I have also seen is the time taken to show the total number of results is very less.

I have also observed that the 2nd level pages of a site are shown on top of the third level pages even if third level pages have the new cache date.

There is this one site of mine for which the third level page which do not have a supplemental tag, shows below the 2nd level page after clicking on the omitted results but does not show in the initial site: search.

[g1smd]

I have been seeing "1 to 1 of about 1" and then when clicking the "omitted results" link getting a more correct "1 to 10 of about 150" message instead.

For a few days I was also seeing stuff like "1 to 80 of about 20" and other such stuff.

[matrix_neo]

I have similar problem with few of my sites that are about two years old, with 30 plus good backlinks and ranking well. But my established sites with lots of links and about 4+ years shows normal, all other sites shows only single digit non significant urls and others are omitted. Omitted results also include some suplimental results.

Is it related to the age filter? Does it mean only single digit urls are in the searchable index? If so I wont be getting the kind of traffic I am getting or is it a minor glitch or link operator kind of practice ;)