subway - 4:31 pm on Oct 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

>>> Explain this - how can you even speculate that PR is the cause? <<<

Ok, my explanation ...

- New sites and new pages are still indexed and ranked within 1 week - That's a fact. Sometimes they're ranked very, very well if they are *not* money terms.

- If you want your site to rank well for the money terms you need a strong page rank - a strong 5 or above normally does it. Once you've achieved a high PR, all the old tricks work like they always did.

- Because page rank has not been updated for so long, it's created the illusion of a "sandbox". I think webmasters on these forums always without fail give G much much more credit than they are due - it's not some amazing sandbox algo tweak we're witnessing, just an intentionally delayed page rank update.