whitenight - 7:07 am on May 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

Nothing involving Universal search here, only the use of the experimental spot. The phenomenon never occurs when universal search items appear in the results.

You contradicted and answered your own statement
"The phenomenon never occurs when universal search items appear in the results"

Come on folks.
Let's try to use a little scientific method here.
If it never occurs when Universal Search items appear, then that means what?
That it's connected to US?
or
it's connected to something else?

If you want to argue which types of pages are appearing at #4 (which seems to be random by everyone's observation) then that's a different issue.

It's the "experimental spot" precisely because that's where a majority of US SERPs appear.
(Again, I point you to my initial complaints about US, where US results only appeared at exactly #4)

Don't make the algo more mystical or complicated than it needs to be.
It simply isn't.

[edited by: whitenight at 7:20 am (utc) on May 8, 2008]