lorien1973 - 10:32 pm on Dec 27, 2007 (gmt 0)

When I see the results returned to their original #1 rankings, the serps returned are definitely less in every occasion. ie 17.2 million vs. 13.6 million.

I'm seeing the opposite. On a phrase (different site) that went from 1 to 8; the # of pages went from 14 million to 196,000. I'm calling it a bug (or testing something) until the beginning of the year as well.

The date this started is a date when web traffic begins to slide down (~20th) anyways; so it seems like a good time of year to test things out.