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Macro - 10:02 am on Oct 8, 2004 (gmt 0)


<speculation>

1. A change in the log scale

2. Some downgrading of the value of home pages (with the PR coming to home pages/entry pages distributed to internal pages instead)

3. By association PR is not purely a page issue anymore, G is taking "sites" into account in some way when allocating/distributing PR.

4. A devaluation of DMOZ/Google Directory listings in the calculation of PR (perhaps something to do with the million of DMOZ clones that have sprung up)

5. Some value or penalty for freshness - or lack of it in some categories

6. Devaluing links from some sources - like blogs

7. Devaluing of links from blatant PR sellers (either via a manual block ... or some new way they've found of detecting the blatant PR sellers via algo)

And one "pure" conspiracy for good measure....

8. Throwing in a random obfuscation factor in Toolbar PR that randomly affects some pages and not others (to confuse SEOs)

</speculation>

[edited by: Macro at 10:10 am (utc) on Oct. 8, 2004]


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