stevenha - 11:45 pm on Feb 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

When NickCoons originally asked for evidence, I thought of this. ( But I'm just remembering what I've read elsewhere on this site.)

I remember reading that making your site bigger and bigger, adding more and more pages, has diminishing returns. I recall reading that after about 500 pages, adding more pages linking to your homepage, doesn't give the same degree of PR boost to your homepage that the 1st 500 pages gave. Perhaps someone can remember where that thread is, and reference it.

Another suggestion was made a few months ago, during one of the update threads, where someone thought they noticed an algorithm change, whereby multiple internal links seemed to transfer less value than before, for big sites over a certain size. Someone else seemed to notice the same effect.

It wouldn't surprise me that Google could easily implement such an algorithm change. Nobody can guarantee that One Page = One PR vote anymore, because creating more and more pages to create more votes is too easy to abuse.