MHes - 10:33 pm on Jan 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

Tedster

>I...we might not be counting links to your pages with the same weight....

My take on this is that they are putting less emphasis on links to your page and more emphasis on links from your page. I think the whole 'links as votes' formula has become corrupt and a much better sign of quality is the way a page links out. A good page can take months or years to acquire natural inbound links and by the time that happens the content can be stale. A better method is to appraise the page while it is still fresh and the way it links out can signal quality and/or relevence.

Another effect of this is the goal of having 'information' sites in the organic listings, while pushing commercial sites who tend not to link out so much (on a page basis) into buying adwords.