"&" in search for site:domain.com
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Hi,
a few days ago we talked to a seo agency.
They told us something about the "site:" search, that we hadn't heard before.
As they told us, a search for "site:domain.com/&" would give you the number of relevant pages that Google indexed for your domain.We tested this search with some domains. Lots of the results showed up to 25% less indexed pages, than the search for site:domain.com/
Has anyone heard of this before, or is it just a sales gimmick?
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Not sure about the & (That doesn't mean it's not true) however if you are interested in search operators have a look here on Moz : http://moz.com/blog/25-killer-combos-for-googles-site-operator
If you want to know how many pages are indexed by Google then use the WMT here http://www.google.com/webmasters/
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