NovaW - 5:41 pm on Oct 8, 2002 (gmt 0)

anchor text is much lower now though in the ranking scores. In highly competitive searches this has the impact of making the results less relevant

- Very high PR sites trump, so sites like MS can get to be #1 even though the page has 0 relevancy
- SPAM can find it's way in

Perhaps a reduction in the relevance for anchor text was to combat googlebombing like "go to hell", but simply checking that the anchor text was in the destination page would have achieved the same thing without reducing the quality of the index - which has certainly occured.