abcdef - 1:38 pm on May 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

our experience if it helps anyone:

in about feb - march, we received a ranking on a prime keyphase (for us) that we hadn't expected for awhile. (until our pr could compete with the heavy hitters)...

since march, we disappeared of the map with the keyphrase, again. we hadn't made any signficant changes to make it appear or disappear. it just did,

comparing that to what we see on -sj & -fi:

-sj
true to form our ranking discussed above shows up on this index for the keyphrase. got us real excited at first since GG was hinting that index was going to go live. we thought we got our ranking back (since we dont know how we got it exactly, and than how we lost it, that was exciting)however upon closer inspection we realized what everybody else did....it's common knowledge that the -sj starting point for that index (its ground 0) is stale data in many regards, if not all.

-fi
doesn't have us ranked anywhere on this keyphrase (just like old and new times). further, of certain new data being rotated on www. it seems it closely matches -fi index in many regards. however there are indications that --fi is a stale index of data as well as its ground 0. maybe more stale than -sj or maybe newer. it's really hard to tell for us if -fi is any better an indicator of things to come than -sj.

in short, for us hard to draw any conclusions with what we are seeing. yet anyway. on anything. based on this analysis and a few phrases we are watching, and other posts in this forum for the last couple of weeks now.