steveb - 6:08 am on Sep 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

"wouldn't you think they also might want to keep a 'website' in their index"

I think what ever they might want or logically thing makes sense, they can't do it.

Wouldn't you think that they would be sharp enough to discern high quality, official-type websites and not subject them to the sandbox?

Wouldn't you think they were good enough to pick and choose rather than use blanket, unflinching policies?

This problem described exists and fits exactly in with how Google is *choosing* to handle things in a blanket way.

If they have this silly sandbox, then clearly they should not offer any benefit to 301s to new domains. That follows. The 301 thing is a branch. The root of the problem of course is the broad, simplistic application of the sandbox.