jomaxx - 7:15 pm on Mar 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

Psmith0000: yes, pagerank is based on all links, even ones which might appear to be unrelated to the site's content. "Popularity" is one way of looking at it; another is to say that a link to a website is kind of like a "vote" for the quality of the site's quality/value/usefulness.

However, pagerank is just one of many elements that Google considers when listing the actual search results.

esaslo:
>> a link from a PR site which is low enough can REDUCE the over pagerank of the site it links to
Can you explain how this can happen? I have never heard this.

>> google gives a PR preference modifier to pages who UPDATE on a continual (i.e., daily/weekly, etc.) basis. This preference translates into increased PR...
Never heard this either, and I don't believe that freshness translates to higher PR.