google search function to find # of site's pages in index

I know there's is a function...couldn't find it

[Webdoc]

Hi all,

I need google search's function to find # of site's pages in the index

i.e. site:www.domain.com

tia

p.s. I spent 15 minutes searching for it...thanks

[ciml]

You can use site:domain.com domain, but I prefer site:domain.com -madeupxyz123 where madeupxyz123 is a word that doesn't exist in any page on the domain.

[Nick_W]

I didn't know that, that's very, very neat. Thanks ciml! ;)

Nick

[takagi]

One of the nice things I learned here at WW some months ago is that a search on a site while excluding a non-existing word is a good way to find that number. Like ciml wrote in message 2. But sometimes it doesn't work that good.

I just did the following searches for WebmasterWorld pages indexed in fi (something similar on data centers with older index):

site:www.webmasterworld.com webmasterworld [www-fi.google.com] 60,000

site:www.webmasterworld.com -madeupxyz123 [www-fi.google.com] 51,700

site:www.webmasterworld.com member [www-fi.google.com] 67,200

site:www.webmasterworld.com member profile [www-fi.google.com] 74,500

site:www.webmasterworld.com member profile -filetype:pdf [www-fi.google.com] 81,600

Do you notice the last 3 go up, altough I 'restricted' the search more and more?

[Receptional Andy]

You can also go through the first stage of signing up for a site search function [services.google.com] and Google will give you the number of pages indexed.

This gives 71600 for webmasterworld btw - is the discrepancy above due to the 'of about' filter which removes duplicates/too similar pages?

[shaadi]

Do you notice the last 3 go up, altough I 'restricted' the search more and more?

I guess that's the Dance :)

[Receptional Andy]

>>I guess that's the Dance

I think takagi thought of that and so was using just the www-fi data centre which is pretty stable at the moment.

[ciml]

Nice example takagi. One thing I certainly should have mentioned earlier is that those searches are a good way of finding the pages, but historically the numbers have been only a broad estimate.

[rfgdxm1]

It looks to me like site:domain.com -madeupxyz123 works well if you page through to the end to get an exact rather than about number.

[Webdoc]

Thank you everyone...very helpful. As usual, I get more great info than I had anticipated!

webdoc

[espeed]

use...

site:domain.com inurl:domain.com