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More options Feb 16 2007, 11:16 am

From: wreilly

Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:16:53 -0800

Local: Fri, Feb 16 2007 11:16 am

Subject: Re: Is PageRank Finite?

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Ok so is any of this still applicable or has PR morphed into something
completely different:

http://www.google.com/technology/

Specifically this:

So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching
techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your
search.

This indicates that PR is tied to relevancy.

On Feb 16, 8:58 am, Sebastian wrote:

> PR is not an integer. Toolbar-PR is just an never up to date
> simplification for visualization purposes.
> Sebastian

> On Feb 16, 3:03 pm, wreilly wrote:

> > John you may be on to something here. If PR is an integer then the
> > random fluctuations would not occur or at the very least be rare. If
> > PR is a real number between 1 and 10 then page rank is infinite.
> > However as I understand this PR is not used to determine SERP
> > position. Or, is it that PR is primarily used to determine crawl
> > frequency but is also a factor in determining relevance and this
> > combined with other factors causes the Google uncertainty principal.

> > On Feb 15, 5:35 pm, softplus wrote:

> > > So who's going to mirror this discussion in their blog so that we can
> > > link to it? :-)

> > > Great stuff, guys.

> > > Is pagerank diluted as you add more content to your website?
> > > Is pagerank diluted as Google adds more filetypes to the index?
> > > Can issues with numerical accuracy result in "chaotic" pagerank
> > > fluctuations?

> > > John- Hide quoted text -

> - Show quoted text -

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