TheMadScientist - 4:47 am on Jan 25, 2010 (gmt 0)

I dont see how it would be related so I doubt it.

Because part of the determination of stale v fresh is the 'freshness' of the links to the content and the 'freshness' of the page containing the fresh link(s). You have to think of stale v fresh determinations much like PageRank... Freshness 'cascades', 'transfers' from one page to another, depending on the 'freshness' of the link and the 'freshness' of the page containing the link, which is in part, of course, determined by the 'freshness' of the links pointing to the 'new' page and the 'freshness' of the pages themselves...

Stale v Fresh is *not* age of the content specifically. A very old page can still be fresh if it consistently attracts fresh links from fresh pages.