Lothar - 10:13 pm on Aug 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

Just to add to the thread... Most NEW sites we have our commercial in nature and have been sandboxed since April with no exceptions. I don't think there is any difference if a site is informational/commercial in the "sandbox" effect.

This is awfully sad considering many quality sites could have been created in the past 3-4 months and have no chance of being found. Imagine some spectacular new trend or phenomenon is introduced and a person creates a site about that trend... No chance to rank for 3-6 months? Sounds like a bad quality index to me as being relevant means also being timely. IMHO.