Marcia - 11:10 am on Aug 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

>>I've seen sites that categorically have not been visited with a toolbar get in the results, so although this might explain some sites, there must also be another reason.

There is.

>>there is a site somewhere linking to new registrations and Google picks them up from that.

That's exactly what's happening. There's a bot that Googlebot seems to be hot on the trail of within no time. At least that's how it appears to be.

[edited by: Marcia at 11:12 am (utc) on Aug. 12, 2004]