randle - 1:00 pm on Oct 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

BeeDeeDubbleU,

I could not agree with you more on this;

“You don't do that by excluding all new sites from the results for a period of eight months or more.”

It is astounding to me that from pre-IPO through post-IPO, this index, for all practical purposes, is not showing any new sites for coming up on a year now. A year, looked at in relation to the changes that go on in the internet, is an incredibly long time. I am an admitted Goolge fan but this fact is something that is a serious issue with their record.

I don’t know “why”, but every day it goes on I get closer to thinking it cannot be intentional, and they are struggling to fix it. Because eventually its going to get more play, and they have hung their hat on freshness, which this index is anything but.