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If I search site:example.com in Google and I get results, does that guarantee that my site is indexed by Google?

I'm asking because that search yields perfect results, but when I search using really unique keywords that would only appear on my site (without the site: argument) I don't show up at all. My site is kind of new (7 months old) and pretty simple, but I feel like a search unique to my site should show up as a top result.

Everything looks good in google search console too. Sitemap submitted, 8 pages discovered, home page canonical declared, all pages say crawled and indexed. But how come it's impossible to rank in any searches?

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  • Lots of people are seeing content not appear at the moment, and I assume it is to do with their fighting AI - see vincentschmalbach.com/… for one take. I've personally had pages where some, but not all, of the content appears in search. I suspect getting decent backlinks to individual pages may improve your chance of it ranking for non site: searches, but that's a guess not an answer.
    – RichardB
    Commented Nov 9 at 19:09
  • site: is a special case. It does mean Google is aware of it, but is no guarantee it will show up in search results. e.g. Google may prefer another page on a different website over a result in a site: search, but because of the site: restriction it will be shown.
    – Tony McCreath
    Commented Nov 11 at 2:32

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