More sandboxing problems at Google with a big name brand - this time it's Chris Pirillo's TagJag site, which was 301'd several weeks ago from the Gada.be domain. Let's see what the search engines have to say about this high profile move....

Yahoo! (tagjag.com)

Pretty good - they know about the domain, and they're ranking the cheerleader tag in 3rd position, which I can respect (though I'm more into the librarian-types myself). I do note that a search for tagjag itself doesn't bring up the site until position 27 (and that result is the cheerleader tag page), so we're seeing a little of Yahoo!'s relatively new sandboxing effect, first noted between 3-5 months ago.

MSN (tagjag.com)

 MSN is doing a terrific job of picking up the new URL, and their results look a little less... shall we say "high school?" They're also ranking the URL first for a straight TagJag search - no sandboxing in Redmond (yet). I'm proud of them for giving Chris a little trust.

Google (tagjag.com)

That's weird... let's check out some other related searches:

• Gada.be - gives me the same result - no information
• TagJag - they're not in the top 100 results, and neither is Gada.be
• Check the headers - nothing wrong there; it's a clean 301 re-direct
• Site:gada.be - only one result not in supplemental; Google has serious trust issues with Chris.
• Link Check at Yahoo! - Oh, that explains it... There's only a half million or so links pointing there. No wonder Google doesn't think it's important!

Seriously, this ugly sandbox "we don't trust new domains or 301s" business is getting mighty old. Let's hope there's a solution in site.