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I'm not terribly sure this is developer related (and I submitted the link!) but if you design websites for a living it's probably a good idea to have at least a basic understanding of how the 800 tonne gorilla works.

This descriptioon is all over the web by the way... The earliest one I can find is 2003, but I'm sure there are earlier :-/

That's true... this might be the valid one... it's got a Google PageRank of 6 =P

I just noticed with the redesign the front page was scrolling WAY, WAY faster than normal and the upcoming pool was pretty shallow so I decided to dump my "research" folder and lend you guys a hand :)

The research folder probably woulda been bigger if that breakout game hadn't been in it ;)

hahaha, that's just got me told off for wasting good half hour of my time ;-) *shakes fist* ;-D

One should note that this article is based off the published PageRank algorithm.... which is very old. It's very unlikely that the exact algorithm is still being used.

It's definitely not still being used in it's old, published form. Several weights have been shifted downwards or removed completely while others have been introduced (i.e. reciprocal linking comes to mind).