Dayo_UK - 11:25 am on Oct 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

>>>>Another way to think about this is previously Google has stated pagerank was a deciding factor in choosing a canonical page... in this case that is 100% not the case; instead, the choice of the canonical page is made strictly based on age.

I know this is getting OT - but lots of homepages were removed (apparently totally) from the index and then re-indexed. (while pages within the site remained)

So if those sites rely on the oldest page being indexed as the Canonical - they are screwed.

I am seeing the same as Steveb in a site search eg:-

Bad Supplemental Match.
Bad Supplemental Match.
Bad Supplemental Match.
Good Recent Cached Match.
etc

and then it shows in normal serps where the top 2 can be listed and then the rest omitted with the more from this site option available.