Hi guys+girls,

Quick question, is the site: function in Google accurate?

It's reporting "Results 1 - 10 of about 286,000" yet we only ;) have about 75,000 content pages. I'm sure a lot are taken up by the director structure...but still :confused: .

Is this an issue to do with having pages pointings at URLs with both domain.com/directory/ and domain.com/directory/index.html?

Many thanks! - Chris

I would treat this figure as accurate but with a pinch of salt.

You could well have URLs like http://example.com, http://example.com/index.html, http://www.example.com, http://www.example.com/index.html without even going into query string issues.

My experience is also that this differs per data center and even per Google page (e.g. you have 750K pages on the first SERP, but when switching to the 3rd you all of a sudden have 350K). So I'd concur with Wail; good estimation, but not a holy number :)