parabola - 1:29 pm on May 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

>>I would expect step two to occur over roughly the same timeframe as a typical index cycle<<

Unless I am misunderstanding this, it looks like we will be seeing the new index for about a month before any data from the past 2 months is included?

The typical index cycle is about 4 weeks. I wonder if they will scrap the data from the April crawl and just do another deep and use that for July?

Really bad news if this is the case.