It’s happened in 2 forums I’m a part of, and I’ve seen a few people Tweeting about it – the dreaded PageRank argument has raised it’s head again.
Before we talk about whether it matters, for those of you not so sure, here’s the Wikipedia definition of PageRank:
PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page, used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E).
