allinurl vs site command

Google information on website

[speedshopping]

Hi,

When analysing how many pages our website has in the Google Index I get very different results.

For example, if I run:

allinurl:www.domain.co.uk - 400 pages
site:www.domain.co.uk - 50,000 pages

Can anyone tell me which is the true number that is actually in Google - my traffic levels suggest its the "allinurl" figure that is correct.

Regards,
Wesiwyg

[tedster]

Did you get those numbers switched? Every page indexed from your domain would show in the site: operator results, but nothing else. The inurl: operator should catch all those from your domain plus many from other domains that link to you or have your domain name in the url for some reason. So I would expec to se the inurl results being the larger - often by a big factor.

[treeline]

I also get more results from site: than allinurl:

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[icedowl]

I also get more results from site: than allinurl:
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Ditto

[tedster]

OK - I just redid the same search queries that I had done earlier, before my previous post. And now the results have changed - dramatically. In one case, allinurl:www.example.com dropped from over 9,000 to a mere 3. That's really nuts and it can't be a real number.

speedshopping, you said in your opening post "my traffic levels suggest its the "allinurl" figure that is correct. In the case I just re-checked, it's the other way around. The site: number in this case is around 1,400, and I know that the site offers about 1800 urls total.

[tedster]

Given this report from the UK [webmasterworld.com], it looks like the site: operator results from google.co.uk are still buggy for some people. And given the definition of allinurl: operator, it looks like it's bugged out too.

I'd say you can't trust either number to be the true one right now.