mayor - 2:38 pm on Jul 2, 2000 (gmt 0)

There may some safety in numbers. AV, for instance, reports over 5 million pages for the search term 'gifts'. I doubt they would dare supress all these pages to the point where the surfer could not find gifts to buy. That would make their index pretty useless.

It might make sense for SE's to supress 'gift' pages submitted as a gift-bying occasion approaches, to prevent your specialized promotions from being aired. That way they could give a boost to the banner ads they flash for paid-for promotions.

Has anyone seen any evidence of low rankings or delayed indexing for ecom pages being submitted as a buying event or season approaches? Blips on the radar screen could signal larger scale plans ahead.