vitaplease - 3:54 pm on Sep 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

muesli,

It is hard to give numbers or percentages, as I would guess that the factors do not always necessarily follow linear or Pagerank logarithmic factors.

It just follows a natural logic:

A motivated vote from an independant entity is mostly a factor more objective, even though internal votes are frequently much better motivated (e.g. anchortext). FAST for example, puts little to no attention towards site internal links, as they say they are biased, which I think is not 100% correct. They are biased but they are also well motivated.
Add Pagerank and you factor internal motivation with authority.

Both Google and FAST, however have problems discounting heavy inter-linking of separate sites though. I mentioned some discounting ways in this thread:
[webmasterworld.com...]
Googleguy seems to suggest that heavy interlinking within subdomains (actually seperate sites) is now taken care of (discounted, or treated as "one internal site", instead of penalised?), as you are well aware of in this thread you started yourself: [webmasterworld.com...]

Lets put it this way. I think a link with "blue widget" anchortext from an external average PR4 page, is worth more in ranking for "blue widget", than a an internal link with the same anchortext from an internal average PR5 page (all other elements being the same).
That would be a factor 6 to 10, depending on what logarithmic Pagerank scale one would believe in. However, would an external inbound link from an average PR9 page be worth 6x6x6x6x6x6=more? I very much doubt so..