Yeah, that PR2 for MSN sucks. MSN is one of the biggest sites out there was was at PR9, I think that is pretty shady of google if google can purposly alter their competitor’s page rank like that, it is not right. It’s almost too obvious that google did something like that on purpose to it’s biggest competitor right before MSN starts up their own PPC business and that is unfair. Even so, MSN is probably one of the most popular homepage on browsers and everyone knows what MSN is anyways.
Does anyone know if google can do these types of things to any website they want, or specifically block out specific sites? Or if google just had some problems indexing and didnt quite get through the site or came up with an error and just didn’t finish it’s job?
Also, is there a way to get out of the sandbox before the 6-8 months are up for a new website? Like say paying google to lift the sandbox, or call them up?