tedster - 3:33 am on Mar 16, 2010 (gmt 0)

So the original question of this thread can only receive speculative answers at best?

If you mean the question "Does PageRank Still Matter?" the answer is not at all speculative. The answer is YES, it still matters. It matters for crawling and for indexing and for ranking. PageRank is still a significant part of the overall picture.