Silent_Bob - 11:05 am on Mar 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

Everyone is saying that quality backlinks are what is counting now, but explain this one:

I've just looked at the backlinks of the site that sits at #2 in the serps for most of my search terms. They have around 80 backlinks - 78 from themselves and 2 from the secure server their payment page sits on. How is that quality backlinks? No dmoz, no relevant sites. They have PR5 and rank higher than my site which has a dmoz and google directory listing, and around 40 quality links or pr4 or higher. Google have lost the plot.