Lord_Majestic - 1:49 am on Jan 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

I think that a link based strategy is, given the state of the modern web, broken.

There is no viable algorithmically scaleable alternative to it - it may have been possible to avoid using it in 1998, but in 2008 there is way too much data to avoid result discrimination based on links: when number of matches is significant, which in most cases it is.