Comments on: Has Google shrunk it’s index or cleaned it out?

By: Jack Yan

Jack Yan — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:15:42 +0000

I have been noticing the same for months and the reductions seem to have continued into January 2008. I’ve seen halving for the terms we track but nothing quite as drastic as the figures being reported above.

By: ScottUA

ScottUA — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:44:37 +0000

It seems like Google is always tweaking it’s listings. One day you’ll see 2,220,000 for a term. And you’ll look the next day and they’ll list half of that. I’ve given up long ago trying to figure them out.

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:39:47 +0000

that varies depending whether you’re signed in or not.

By: Michael @ Freshome

Michael @ Freshome — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:52:14 +0000

I see that the numbers are back. Maybe they were tweaking something in the algoritm, and you noticed.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:57:36 +0000

They have reverted back again now but were checked from various IP’s this morning, strange.

By: Abdul

Abdul — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:16:24 +0000

I am not surprised to be honest

google used to have so much indexed which wasn’t that useful

however now it hopefully shrinks it to the most useful bits

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:53:43 +0000

Looks like a Google query for “tattoo” returns around 50 million results pages, and a query for “tattoos” returns over 23 mil - at 9:50 a.m. MST on Dec 3rd. Did you check all the datacenters when you noticed the strange fluctuation in pages indexed?

By: Justin Cook

Justin Cook — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:23:22 +0000

Perhaps they’re just dumping more into the supplemental index. (where it belongs…)

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:51:56 +0000

I track the phrase “orlando villas”. Down from 2 million to 225,000.

It was 4 million a few months ago, so this has happened before I think.