I've been watching BigDaddy at http://66.249.93.104/ to try and get an idea of where my 60 new sites may be at the next update. And made quite the discovery for you sandbox doubters. They've been running BigDaddy with this and that data, and this morning it appears to be from October 05. (My stuff was anyway). These particular 60 sites launched in October and on regular G, remain solidly today at 1 indexed page each. No surprise there. However, on BigDaddy this morning were hundreds of indexed pages, dated October 16, only a couple weeks after the sites were up. The current date is in my own title bar, a little link-baiting experiment. BigDaddy is not showing a cached copy at this time, so I would never have known the date otherwise. Please try some site:mysite.com searches at http://66.249.93.104/ - and even the other operators - and you'll get entertaining variations of results about your sites that make regular G look like the Chinese version. This experiment reminds me of Google's different results between the @:mysite.com and the link:mysite.com operators. Same backlink search, but one is actually truthful.
We all know the sandbox or some filter does exist. You lost me, how does this prove there is a sandbox? Big Daddy is just a test data center
Actually Big Daddy seems to be offline at the moment, that IP address is the standard google results at the moment. (which are also currently showing me an old set of data too, dunno about anyone else)
Yes it's a test data center. And on it were hundreds of pages indexed only a couple weeks after I launched the sites months ago. While at the same time, "regular" Google has been only showing one page per site. Not saying any of this is earthshaking. To me it's the first hard evidence that they actually are indexing tons more than they are showing. Just like with their backlinks. Makes the "no sandbox" argument a joke. I betcha there's an operator to find out how many pages they really have for each of us.
Not completly. They show results for pages that didn't even exist before this month, like pages in the three or more current SEO Contests. For example, about two weeks ago http://66.249.93.104/search?q=v7ndotcom elursrebmem&num=100 wouldn't of had any results. Now it has 2,100,000 (Disclaimer: Subject to change, like prices!)!!!!
Matt Cutt's from Google confirmed months ago what most already knew- that google does have a filter in place that could be considered the sandbox, although google doesn't call it that. He says it doesn't apply to every site, but I think any site that is in any type of semi-competitve sector.