steveb - 4:25 am on Jun 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

yankee, please address the issues and leave personalities out of it as they have nothing to do with anything. I didn't belittle anyone, so please save your comments for somewhere else.

And yes, the *idea* that selling pagerank would cease if the little green bar disappeared is absurd. It's like thinking if you closed your eyes the practice would stop.

As long as pagerank is considered valuable by some people, those people will buy and sell it, whether it is displayed in some silly green bar or not.