The Google Caffeine update is already live in one data center. This is basically rewriting of some basic architecture and there would not be any visible UI changes.
Google Caffeine is one update which Google has been working on and asking end-users to test for a long time. Read the full story
Sandbox is an unofficial term used by search engine optimizers to explain the behavior of certain pages in a website on Google’s search engine. New pages or domains are often placed in an area by Google until it can determine or validate the authenticity of the page or domain name. Sandbox effect was first revealed in March 2004. Read the full story