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you are right. Last time I saw so many Fresh! pages was about two weeks ago or so as far as I could track down recently. Mid-month freshness!
WebmasterWorld for example has about 393 fresh pages at the moment (a lot of member profile pages - and - also yours ;) ), as checked with http://www.researchbuzz.com/toolbox/goofresh.shtml and also mentioned in this thread: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum19/650.htm
The researchbuzz tool is not perfect though, it does miss out on some fresh pages. Google is also not perfect in determining what should be fresh, check the researchbuzz tool for a search on "feedback", = 6190 pages that should be the least interesting for searchers..
That goo fresh tool is cool, but it baffles me sometimes. I've got (at varying times throughout the month) several pages from my linkto list that are freshed, yet I still can't get the bugger to even touch my site outside of the crawl. You'd think that at PR 5 for the front page (where 80% of these freshed links are coming from) would at least warrant a "hit" from the bot to see if it changed, whether it actually freshes it or not. I'd guess that on my front page, less than 40% of the text on it is the same as the last time goooglebot visited. (The 7th).
Oh well.
G.
I've managed to climb from 8th to 6th on my main keyword, held third place on my main keyphrase and got a third out of nowhere on a 100 visitor a day keyphrase.
Go Google, may you flux forever.
Do I have to just cross my fingers for the next couple of weeks, and hope I make it back into the next update?
But I have seen Google do this for a long time. I think Google is always tweaking and adding/indexing the index with the one big whammy update every month. It only seems odd when it's your site going through this ;)