ownerrim - 3:52 pm on Sep 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

"i think that pagerank is almost dead in the water"

Pagerank's importance may be minimized now, and may be minimized even more in the future, but I don't see it ever being dead. You have to have some fundamental way of doing the macro-sorting of webpages. Now, once you get beyond the big sort, you refine it further with relevancy criteria such as keywords, titles, links, anchor text.

If pagerank ever completely died, there'd be no way to do business startups on the web and get them going inside of a number of years (minus paying for advertising such as adwords). Even info sites would take years to ever get noticed particularly since they generally don't solicit links but get them organically over a period of years.