Yeah. Scalability is their forte. The theory makes some sense. The partial indexing phenomenom is now happening on almost any site I look up.
Perhaps we should publish this some more. see if we can bring some preasure to google.
Yep, there's been lots of speculation over this the past year... http://www.google-watch.org/broken.html While Google understandably remains mum on the subject, I personally think that it is a likely scenario. Their index is huge enough that there is plenty of junk and spam they can scrub to make room for new pages, but you know that can't go on forever. I suspect that the pressure has been on for them for quite some time over at the Googleplex. If we eventually see a sudden huge jump in that number at the bottom of google.com, I guess we'll know that they were indeed "broken", but are now fixed.
Might be a good opening for some other engines.
Technical problems might very well explain much of what we've been seeing lately. It could help explain why new pages have such a hard time ranking and why their seems to be such a bias for pages from older domains.
This is probably just a myth. Somebody else pointed out on a differenet forum to search for the word "the". That search returns 5.7 Billion Results, well over the 4 byte integer limit. This doesn't even take into account non-english sites that don't even use "the".
Well I have had new pages indexed but I have heard a lot of people complaining about sites getting dropped or not indexed.
The new pages get indexed, they just don't rank for anything important. If you type the phrase in quotes "keyword phrase" you can get the page to show up. This almost tells us that the optimization is right but something is lacking.
Sandboxed backlinks?
google added an "aging" factor this year. last year you could rank a page in 5 days or so
Aging factor? I was asking was he talking abbout the sandbox, not what it is.