> I find it very hard to believe that PageRank is still the same PageRank that we understood in 1998.
It's not, because as good as PageRank was, it was vulnerable to being exploited by link farms, which started popping up in its wake. I do remember that by the mid 2000s, about 5% of search results were pages just spamming search keywords and hyperlinks.
It's not, because as good as PageRank was, it was vulnerable to being exploited by link farms, which started popping up in its wake. I do remember that by the mid 2000s, about 5% of search results were pages just spamming search keywords and hyperlinks.