Amount of results has increased... Seriously.

Some of my key phrases now have 6 mil results. Used to have 3-4

[NeoN]

HellO!
Interesting note.. Amount of search results has increased seriously - some of my target phrases have doubled , some have moved from 4 000 000 to 7 000 000 results.
Any logical explanation?

Thanks!

[Marcia]

I'm seeing the same thing, where some search phrases are double and triple what they were. I suspect for some it may be that more dynamic pages are getting in.

[takagi]

Any logical explanation?

Google Increases Index Size Figure - Searching 3,307,998,701 web pages [webmasterworld.com]

[4eyes]

There is something very wrong going on here.

When I do a site:www.mydomain.com search, the figures are way off.

eg for one of my sites which I know has only 4000 pages, Google is showing over 6000 pages present.

This overestimation occurs on three of my larger sites - all static html, all showing between 30-50% more pages than actually exist.

Either they have problems, or, heaven forbid, there is some cooking of the books.

Not good

[vitaplease]

Yes it seems search result numbers have increased well beyond the approx. 10% they posted for the total index on the google home page.

<<Added>> In this thread: [webmasterworld.com...] Getafix shows the 5,210,000,000 size for a search of "the".

Resourceshelf [resourceshelf.com] posted on more of Google's search result number inconsistencies, certainly when doing more advanced site: exclude stuff.

[mil2k]

A public relations game to compete with other search engines? ;)