percentages - 11:18 am on May 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

>1) there is a quarantine/intentional delay on new sites....OR
2) some very experienced webmasters have become incompetent overnight.

1) Nope, G! is indexing and ranking as it should.

2) The world changes and some folks don't.

There isn't a problem with G!, per se, the rules change all the time, we are just seeing a slightly different set of rules at play that will affect a few sites.