Google Site search operator showing different results than Search Console

[HashtagHustler]

Hey everybody,

I am seeing some confusing results. I am seeing that in the back of our Search Console we are showing around 4,500 sites indexed.

If I use the "site" operator in google, only 2820 show up... any thoughts as to why that happens?

[Roman-Delcarmen]

First of all Google Search Console can show you Crawled Pages and **Indexed Pages. **Google follows three basic steps to generate results from web pages:

• Crawling
• Indexing
• Serving (and ranking)

Crawling: The first step is finding out what pages exist on the web. There isn't a central registry of all web pages, so Google must constantly search for new pages and add them to its list of known pages. This process of discovery is called crawling.

Indexing: After a page is discovered, Google tries to understand what the page is about. This process is called indexing. Google analyzes the content of the page, catalogs images and video files embedded on the page, and otherwise tries to understand the page.

Serving: When a user types a query, Google tries to find the most relevant answer from its index based on many factors. Google tries to determine the highest quality answers, and factor in other considerations that will provide the best user experience and most appropriate answer, by considering things such as the user's location, language, and device

In summary, no all your pages at least not all the pages in your Search Console will be available on SERPs