An SEO & Web Marketing Blog: Scatterings - Latest comments on A Hack for Getting True Google Indexation Numbers? http://www.stephanspencer.com/?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Edward [Visitor] in response to: A Hack for Getting True Google Indexation Numbers? Wed, 14 May 2008 05:06:20 +0000 Edward [Visitor] c825952@http://www.stephanspencer.com/ I see your point. Google only lets you view the first 1000 results. So then why bother doing a headcount if it wastes CPU cycles?<br /> <br /> Unfortunately, I've noticed some weird things about Google, so I'm not sure if you can trust the cache:xyz. When I first got a website indexed in Google, Google indexed it sporadically. However, I noticed one peculiarity. The cache had a 5 day old version of the site. However, in the description, I saw that it had content that was only 2 days old. <br /> <br /> I'm not sure what happened, but Google is weird. I'm not so sure that using Cache:xyz is very accurate either. <br /> <br /> As a further note:<br /> I had a site which I prohibited Google from visiting via robots.txt. However, it still had the site in their index - only with the site URL though. I could search for the site via the site URL (without the .com), and I could see info:mysite.com. However, cache:mysite.com did not work, as expected. As I said, Google is weird.
Unfortunately, I've noticed some weird things about Google, so I'm not sure if you can trust the cache:xyz. When I first got a website indexed in Google, Google indexed it sporadically. However, I noticed one peculiarity. The cache had a 5 day old version of the site. However, in the description, I saw that it had content that was only 2 days old.

I'm not sure what happened, but Google is weird. I'm not so sure that using Cache:xyz is very accurate either.

As a further note:
I had a site which I prohibited Google from visiting via robots.txt. However, it still had the site in their index - only with the site URL though. I could search for the site via the site URL (without the .com), and I could see info:mysite.com. However, cache:mysite.com did not work, as expected. As I said, Google is weird.]]> http://www.stephanspencer.com/search-engines/a-hack-for-getting-true-google-indexation-numbers#c825952