renee - 2:38 pm on Oct 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

>>One way to beat the sandbox would be to have high PR.

looks like google does not calculate pr for sites/pages in the 'box' index. if so, this does not make sense.

>>The other sure shot way is placement in every relevant category of DMOz.

this has already been proved wrong by the previous posts.

>>the calculation of the query time importance score

pages in the 'box' index don't appear in normal queries so query time is not meaningful.

again, it's fun to postulate complicated theories but it's really a simple case of google indigestion - that a separate index is used to hide the fact that g has reached a capacity limit - and its is not due to some pea-brain reason like running out of disc space!

just ask yourself how your new sites are behaving compared to your supplemental pages.

the good news - it's been over a year of g multiple indices, so (i hope) they are close to a solution. every once in a while, i see supplementas mixed in with the normal serps. this must be an indication that they are testing.