arthurdaley - 12:34 pm on Oct 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

>>The sandbox/google lag/whatever is a ranking, not an indexing issue. It is absolutely critical to understand that.

>Yes, to say anything else would be to discuss a different phenomena

Depends on the intended semantics of 'indexing'. It's certainly not a spidering problem as they have spidered many pages which are not in the index/ searchable database. But if there is a limitation on the number of pages in the index and old pages must be kicked out before new ones can enter, then that could be called an 'indexing' issue since the issue is caused by limitations in the size of the index/ searchable database.

Also as I understand it, although related the sandbox and google lag are not the same thing. The sandbox affects pages already in the index, seemingly penalising some of them. The lag is a time period delaying the acceptance of pages not yet in the index.