jaina2 - 7:07 am on Sep 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

I believe the sandbox is a side effect of topic sensitive PR. And the cure (atleast until May) was a listing in the appropriate category in DMOZ.
But this implementation of TSPR, which gave the impression that the new sites were not allowed to rank for competitive words for an undetermined period, has caught the fancy of G and they haven’t updated the vectors which would pull a site out of the sandbox.