Yes, but what jsnell is saying it, perhaps if you perform the same experiment with Bing, you'd find pages it didn't index, but that were present in other search

Yes, but what jsnell is saying it, perhaps if you perform the same experiment with Bing, you'd find pages it didn't index, but that were present in other search engines. You can't say A is better than B with a few data points. You can say you think B's behavior has changed compared to the past. But that's also erroneous. It's possible the behavior was always there, you just never tripped over it and rare enough that most people don't, either because the web was too smaller before, or your own content was smaller, or it's recent link and access patterns changed enough to trigger the behavior.