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Originally Posted by crankydave
Is it the buying and selling of links that is a "problem" or is PR, the core of Google search technology, obsolete?
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Clearly, this premise for why PR is so "good" is not accurate. It wasn't "immune" then and most certainly isn't "immune" now.
Dave |
Well, I will not go so far as to agree that PageRank obsolete. I do maintain that the problem was sharing it with the public, and you may be right because there may be no recovery from the current situation.
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Originally Posted by crankydave
Or perhaps you realize that "influencing" the very people who are intent on causing your business model not to work the way you want to AFTER having told them you cannot do it yourself, won't work. 
Dave |
So it would seem.
However, throwing out
PR now, would be like the proverbial baby and bath water. I believe it remains a viable method of returning good results ... and will have to do until personalization is more entrenched. Once Google can convince surfers to rate sites the way Netflix users rate movies, I think they may be able to move away from
PR. And aren't they moving in the direction of factoring in social bookmarking now? There is a way to vote for a page on the Google toolbar, but I doubt many outside the industry ever use it.