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Chris_R - 1:10 pm on Jan 14, 2005 (gmt 0)
In some cases you don't need to. As you mentioned - the other factors are still there. The need for pagerank isn't as great when you have documents all created by the same company - all organized in a similar way - and no one trying to spam.
but how can you do the same for a local small collection of most likely standalone documents