Hating the Google Sandbox!

August 21, 2005 in Computers and Internet, Weblogs, aggregation, blog, blogging, blogs, feeds, google, search, syndication, technology, weblog

googleGoogle has a nice evil little technology they call the Google Sandbox which up until this point has been somewhat mythical:

Several respected members of the SEO community are reporting that a prominent Google engineer has more or less admitted to the existence of a “Sandbox” effect during a session at SES in San Jose, California. The unnamed engineer basically admitted that all sites are subject to a “probationary” period of sorts regardless of merit. This period can last anywhere from six months to 12 months.

The Engineer also joked that Google does not refer to this probationary period as a “sandbox”. They don’t really have a specific name for it but said that they are amused with the moniker and decided to nickname the company volleyball court, located in the googleplex, “The Sandbox”.

The Google Sandbox is just a stupid idea. Of course they’re amazingly secretive about their practices so we’ll never be able to find out their rationale.

FeedBlog has been online for three weeks now and my PageRank is still zero even though I’ve had dozens of links from A-list bloggers. Technorati, Feedster, IceRocket, Yahoo, and MSN are all sending users my way but Google has so far returned nothing.

Google might have initiated this policy because of spammers but legitimate bloggers and website owners pay the price.

I’m an adult! I want out of the sandbox!

One Reply

  1. Joel

    March 5, 2006 at 10:42 am

    Dude, your toolbar pagerank has nothing to do with the Google Sandbox. The toolbar PageRank is only updated about every three months–and then it’s updated only every three weeks or so. So after three weeks, there’s no way you’d be showing any PR in the toolbar. Sandboxed sites do get PR, they just don’t get ranking for competitive keywords.

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