site:example.com says 1060 but ends at 416

[jetteroheller]

I use often Google to find a certain theme on my own sites.
The customized search is set to all my domains, Wikipedia and other for me important domains.

It often happened in the last month, that I did not find the pages, I searched for.

Now I made at several domains

site:example.com

and clicked through the list until the end was reached.

But the end was reaches far before. The most extreeme case was
1060 : 416

This are all pages with original written content, an other case was
948 : 591

I searched my old referer log statistics for certain pages not listed.

They received in the past traffic from Google with unique search terms not available on other pages from me. So this are not "never found - so unimportant pages", they have been found earlier for unique content.

Has Google Alzheimer?

I write here about domains having 5000 to 30000 visitors per month by Google and PR3 to PR5 on the start page.

[g1smd]

This is very common. The initial counts are estimates.

I see over 100 initially counted for an 88 pages site, and Google only ever lists 86 pages.

[jetteroheller]

I see over 100 initially counted for an 88 pages site, and Google only ever lists 86 pages

At the example

948 Google's first estimate
591 actual listed in Google
are
852 pages actual

[Lord Majestic]

The initial counts also include duplicated pages that are not shown by default.

[g1smd]

*** The initial counts also include duplicated pages that are not shown by default. ***

It does if you see the message "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 54 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included." after the last result.

For the example I gave, there are absolutely NO Duplicate Content issues of any sort, yet it still over-estimates the numbers.