Timetraveler - 4:37 am on Dec 31, 2007 (gmt 0)

Is anyone seeing this on pages that have been 950ed for other more competitive phrases?

Yes. My non-English subdomains had a -950 and the affected pages (which came out for 4 months) are showing position #6. The homepage of the subdomains remain unaffected and still rank 1-2 while some pages have gone to #6.

This brings me to one other thing I have noticed. I've seen a DRASTIC increase in google crawl rate. Basically every page on our site, including subdomain pages are having a cache crawl date of maximum 7 days. Prior to the "#6 ceiling rank" pages had cache dates that were months old, and it was very scattered as to which pages were crawled more often. Now it seems all pages are getting recrawled and showing very fresh cache dates continually. I can say this is the biggest thing I have recognized. Has anyone noticed that?