How exactly does the sandbox work?

[blind]

Hi, if my domain lands in the sandbox it's totally excluded from Google results or get distant positions? |loony|

Thanks for answers,
blind :)

[Rorschach]

Pages on new domains will get indexed but they won't rank decently for anything competitive.

[Toby]

Google doesn't acknowledge that the sandbox even exists, but it's pretty obvious that they're adding a "newness" factor to the rankings for new domains. The more popular the search query the heavier the factor is applied.

[SEO_Konsul]

sandbox is mostly on pages built on new domains trying to compete for "high-traffic keywords". should prevent the serps for competitive keywords of spam

[blind]

yeah but how can we know what google means by 'high-traffic keywords' :) ?