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Good guidelines on improving pagerank. via LazyGeek

On the impact of ‘rel=nofollow’ tag. Or, perhaps, some prominent webloggers will use “nofollow” as a money-making technique: for a fee, they’ll take the “nofollow” off your link and let you have their PageRank.

Recognising the problems with PageRank. via RobotWisdom

Google is fiddling around with algorithms to make PageRank 5 times faster. Wonder why they want to do it. The article mentions something about personalised search engines, but I don’t quite get it.

About PageRank

On figuring Google’s pagerank. It’s interesting to note that Google, and only Google, ranks 11 out of 10 in its pagerank.

Google-watch is against Google, because they’re unfair, and don’t respect privacy (via Salon). I still don’t mind, as long as I get good search results. But this “unfair” part I kind-of agree with. Wish Google would search recently updated sites better. And they’ve also got a point about the ordering. Sometimes, I would like to see the “less important” (low pagerank) sites on top.

PigeonRank. Google’s amazing technology (funny).

The original Google paper.