How many pages of our site indexed?

How do you find out how many pages each search engine has indexed, I know Google. Interested in MSN, Fast (sorted) and Ask Jeeves.

I'll 2nd that question... I'm trying to figure out which pages on one of my sites are indexed on inktomi... specifically msn.

"Phoenix", we could use a little help here Thanks Ben.

Ok guys, you pulled me away from work for this, its more fun to slack off now and then. ;-). Now regarding field searching in Inktomi that has been something that I have done some researching on and many many tests but not to much luck. Yet, I have some methods that I use to find sites, and when i have more time I will find the full list in the mountain of paper on my desk, if its more worthwhile than this.
Without going into how to search plainly since we all know how to do that. Here is some ways to Find Your Pages in Inktomi.


site:inktomi.com

- will pull up pages on a specific site, yet it is not as effective for finding ALL pages indexed. I have used this many times, and still find pages that I know are indexed but do not come up with this search. It also looks like the sites that do come up for this search are the highest ranked in terms of link popularity interestingly. One on of my sites, only two urls came up and then I compared these to their Google PR, which incidentially was the highest PR pages on the site. CORRECTION: Based on new searches, especially ones like: site:inktomi.com or site:yahoo.com, which don't completely hold up to the aforementioned. The rankings of a site seem to be based more on popularity - click through rate as measured by Inktomi.

title:companyname
or
title:some keyword combo that is the same for all page in the title.
- this is my own personal method to FIND pages indexed by Inktomi not just search for keywords in the title. Yet I will admit its not always that effective if each of the titles are different.

link:inktomi.com
or
link:"inktomi.com"
- way more effective in finding links within the text of the document

Oh and I forget to mention, I have only tested these on Hotbot and Pure Inktomi Search, but I imagine it probably similar on MSN.

As for Teoma and the rest, that another post for another day..:-)

Phoenix

Thanks for this, being a bit slow here do we enter the 'site:inktomi.com' into say the www.hotbot.com search box?

Thanks Ben. You da man.
Cityneil: Yep, just enter it into the search box.

Hey city, callen is right just enter it into the search box.

Also, if you have time, play around with different versions of the site:search such as using operators:

(-) to exclude a term from the search

(+) to require a term in the search

such as "seo chat" -seo
or
"seo chat" +seo

Great, giving it a go, lets see what happens!

For the most accurate number of sites indexed in hotbot/inktomi goto hotbot.com

Below the search bar you'll see "CUSTOM WEB FILTERS [add]" click [add]

Next checkbox "Domain/Site" and enter your domain in the "Include" box (www.domain.com) scroll down

If you have an adult site checkbox "Block Offensive Content" and select "Never" scroll down

Click "Save"

In the search box enter in "*" and hit Enter.

Viola! Enjoy

-PK

thanks - that's a big help!!