Number of pages G shows keeps dropping

for my site

[dickbaker]

If I do a specific search for my site using the company name (there's no other similar name out there), I G comes back with 2300+ results. This is down from 2400+ results two days ago, which was down from 2500+ before that, which was down from 2800+, etc.

Since I'm adding new pages, and acquiring new inbound links, this doesn't make sense.

Any ideas?

Thanks much for any reply.

[diamondgrl]

My numbers bounce around a lot more than that and always have. I wouldn't worry.

[AlexK]

FWIW I have the identical symptom with my site.

16,400
15,800
...
14,700 (checked a few seconds ago)

Approx 200 loss per day, using site:domain.

Essentially, across the last month or 2 I`ve decided that Google`s search is broken. As just one example, Google shows 5 backlinks to my home page (sifting out my own site). MSN shows 10,000, AltaVista shows 900. Very difficult to take it all seriously.

[whoisgregg]

dickbaker, how many pages should it show? I'd noticed that a batch of 'old urls' had made their way back into the index (I recall a thread started here about something similar). It would only be natural for 404 urls to be removed over time as G checked those links and confirmed the pages had been removed.

Of course, the number of pages I know I have on a particular site and the number that any search engine shows has never been equal.

[webnewton]

Ive been noticind such trend for the past 3-4 months. I guess it's something to do with results from different datacenters. Comment made by whoisgregg also seems valid. Some webpages that were dropped earlier due to sanbox or other penalties may have got an inclusion.

[pipster2004]

we run a tracking service against google and have noticed this on 90% of all sites...

Who knows whats going on!