rfgdxm1 - 5:16 am on May 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

>I would expect step two to occur over roughly the same timeframe as a typical index cycle (thus the "more than weeks, less than months" comment).

And, what about the *older* data that is not in the index, such as all the people who have reported old backlinks and anchor text going inexplicably MIA? If this will take the same timeframe as a typical index cycle, that means this index will be badly botched for around a month. This is little solace for the webmasters around here whose sites are dying because this old data hasn't been incorporated into this index.