Oliver_Henniges - 11:49 am on Feb 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

> They have been for years (or rather the outbound anchor text has counted).

Yes, but some - including me - have the feeling that outbound links in some manner may have a positive impact on the linking site itself. Maybe in such a way that with valuable outbound links a site looks more like an authority on a given topic. I know that this would be very much contradictory to googles initial approach but things have dveloped a lot since then. How could we test/verify this speculation?