Stark - 4:19 pm on Oct 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

Whilst the whole idea of running out of docIDs sounds very unlikely to me (and I'm not really that qualified to comment) the main argument against it seems to be that sites are in the index fine, it's ranking that is the problem - therefore the docIDs proposal is false.

However, what if the lack of IDs only occured in relation to PR calculations? Pages would still be indexed ok, but lack of docIDs for PR values would mean that they would basically have no PR assigned. This would then possibly tally with the lack of a toolbar PR update, and explain the indexing, but not ranking?

Or am I talking out of my a*se?