__/ [www.1-script.com] on Friday 11 November 2005 20:36 \__
> Bryan wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>
>> 1. According to the Googleguide below, we can find the links to the
>> Google home page not on Google's own site by the search terms:
>
>> link:www.google.com -site:google.com
>> The result came out as 9,530 pages.
>
>> And we all know that finding the links to the Google is:
>> link:www.google.com,
>> which came out as 3,830,000 pages.
>
>> So can we say that the pages which have links to www.google.com and are
>> in the site of google.com is around 3,830,000-9,530, which is
>> 3,820,000.
>
>> We executed this search by link:www.google.com +site:google.com,
>> coming out as 44 web pages.
>
>> Is that weird?
>
>> 2. We continued to do another test on the same mechanism.
>> link:www.nsdl.org -site:nsdl.org which came out only one result. It is
>> obviously incorrect since if we do the link:www.nsdl.org. We can find a
>> bunch of web pages linking to this nsdl.org but not belong to itself.
>
>> So can anybody answer about this?
>
>
> Umm... maybe because great many people link to google.com instead of
> www.google.com that affects your results: you are looking for links to
> www.xxx.com whereas you elimitating the site as xxx.com from your search?
Could the explanation possibly lie _here_?
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/cache-issues/
November 11, 2005 @ 3:08 pm Pacific time (so I imagine)
<quote>
You know it?s a slow day in the search industry when folks are talking about
cache: not working. It was a transient issue that most people didn?t see,
but the right people knew about it a few hours ago, so it?s either already
fixed or gonna be soon. Thanks to TW and SEW for noticing.
</quote>
So, a query like 'site:example.org' might be affected and 'misbehave'.
Roy
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