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Old 05-14-2004, 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Dragonsi
There was a point a few months back, when this sites PR dropped from 4 to 3, this happened after including a certain recuprial link. I then removed that link and on the next PR update, it jumped to 6. The linked site in question has now been taken offline, it was a link-farm - can't remember the name of it....
This observation nicely agree with (otherwise speculative) badrank hypothesis stating that Google uses badrank (linking to bad sites) as a correction facor for pagerank calculations.
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