diamondgrl - 10:03 pm on Aug 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

Interesting thread. This could be consistent with a theory espoused in another thread, [webmasterworld.com...] (sorry, it's buried deep in there), about why certain large sites seem to be losing traffic in the latest SERPs.

The theory is that somehow Google lost its most current index of some large sites and has reverted back to an older version of the index. Therefore, newer pages are not indexed properly. That would then explain why Googlebot has been going nuts in indexing these sites in the past week - Googlebot has hit me more than 150,000 times since Monday. Having realized their error, Google folks are sending Googlebot out to recover what it is missing.

I don't know if I'm seeing confirmation here where none exists but if Marcia is correct that this same problem occurred months ago, then maybe it is further evidence that Google has accidentally reverted back to a previous index. That could be good news because things will get back to normal eventually.