Decius - 6:29 am on Feb 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

How naive can you be to believe the sandbox is geared towards "improving results"?

It is keeping out NEW and RELEVENT content for being NEW and RELEVENT.

Google is still full of spam and search results of search results. I'm not saying it's better than any other search engine or worse... what I'm saying is this is as feasible an idea as keeping all sites based on widgets out because a portion of the sites that sell widgets "Tend" to spam.

So "new" sites are part of this category of "Spammers".

It's not "Effective" of a method, because it does not discriminate between a spammer and a high quality site. I atest to this based on experience and the experiences of others.

When there is profit to be made, you have to assume they do what they do for the sake of profit. Google wanted to keep their SERPS as clean as possible during the stage when they went public, which they have done. The problem is their "methods" were not efficient or smart, just safe. And they have yet to discover a better one.