"This space intentionally left blank"

Have you ever seen:

[Nova Reticulis]

[services.google.com...]

Uh?

...and this:

[services.google.com...]

Uh huh?

[Brett_Tabke]

Interesting. But why?

[michael heraghty]

Hmmm... maybe they're trying to notch up pagerank before putting content that's currently in preparation there? ;)

(By the way, the second of your two links now has content.)

Actually, "This space intentionally left blank" is quite a popular phrase -- over 8,000 matches in the SERPs!

[bakedjake]

Looks like some sort of response form for a banner ad running in eWeek for their server appliance, no?

Or am I missing something big?

[airpal]

I've always wondered if you'd be able to reverse engineer part of the algorithm if you used the google-powered search appliance for your company's documents, by constantly making tiny changes and seeing their effects in rankings for certain changes!