renee - 10:01 pm on Oct 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

>>Fact 1. New sites get indexed within a day or two.

YES. they go to the sandbox index (or database).

>>Fact 2. New pages on existing sites get indexed the same way (and get found.)

YES. they go to the main index (or database) that's why they participate in the pagerank calculation and are able to rank in the serps!

this is a solution to the capacity problem in the same way that the supplemental index was created as a solution to the same problem. see my post above.