Can someone summarize Everflux succinctly?

In one paragraph?

[GilbertZ]

People keep bringing up Everflux and being pointed to a long thread on it. This being 2002/2003 whose attention span is that long? ;) If someone has good writing skills and understands it, would you mind putting the explanation in one simple, easy to read paragraph? Thanks!

[Grumpus]

Google has a separate robot that comes out and picks up just "fresh" content - stuff that gets updated regularly. That stuff is then "injected" into the main index. When that happens, you'll notice a drop or raise in ranking due to the sites ahead of (or behind) you. Because these results are added on a daily basis, the results fluctuate continually - hence my term "everflux".

G.

[Marcia]

This is the one:

[webmasterworld.com...]

It just means they crawl all month, and sites are in and out, up and down in rankings in a very transitory fashion in between normal monthly updates, when Page Rank is recalculated and the new index is generated.

[GilbertZ]

Thanks, OK so it IS the freshbot, right? I thought I read somewhere that it is the deepcrawler not the freshbot and that confused me.

[creative craig]

The deepcrawl normaly takes place at the begining of the month, soon after the monthly update has finished.

Craig